Are we in the most dangerous situation for a nuclear escalation since the Cuba Missile Crisis?

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[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

No, Putin is not Hitler he's a Dictator, if he would of wanted to use nukes he would of done so already to take over the country not just Eastern Ukraine

We are in this bind because we didn't sanction him to fillest extent when he took Crimea

[Middle-aged Europe]

No, that probably was in 1983 when nuclear war was barely averted at two separate occasions.

First was the Soviet false alarm on September 26, when Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov made a quick decision to save the world.

This was followed by the Able Archer exercise in November which Soviet leadership believed to be a possible prelude to a NATO nuclear first strike, leading to the Russians readying their own nuclear forces in response.
If the aforementioned false alarm had happened during the height of Able Archer... well, I guess not even this forum would be in existence now.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

I think people don't know what happens in a nuke war we won't die from the bomb itself we will be burned alive from the gases that emits from the bomb, the radiation thats how we are gonna be burned alive thats why NATO isn't sending in troops Putin warned them he will use the nukes if we entered the war

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I think we are at more use of a nuclear weapon being used, but less risk of a huge nuclear escalation with strategic missiles being launched.

[Mr. Smith]

Yeah.

But NK could as likely be the reason as Russia

[morgieb]

No because of 1983.

Otherwise, what crabcake said.