Great-grandson Khrushchev: atomic war closer than in 1962
Russia and the West are closer to nuclear war than the USSR and the USA were during the Cuban missile crisis: the great-granddaughter of former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev is convinced of this. last weeks he had warned of the risk that Moscow could be ready to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine. The Guardian reports it. The war in Ukraine could become more dangerous as neither side seems willing to “back down,” said Nina Khrushcheva, a professor of international affairs in the United States. Both then-president of the United States, John F Kennedy, and Khrushchev decided to reduce the escalation as soon as the specter of nuclear war became a real threat, Khrushcheva said speaking to the BBC’s Today program. “What really saved the world at that moment was the fact that both Khrushchev and Kennedy, whatever they thought of each other’s ideology and disagreed with it, plus neither wanted to. giving in first, when the threat of potential conflict of any kind appeared, they quickly backed off, “he added. But this time neither side, “especially the Russian side”, seems to be willing to back down, and this is what “scares me the most”, she concluded.
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