{"id":136133,"date":"2022-02-27T08:22:18","date_gmt":"2022-02-27T16:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/putin-puts-nuclear-forces-on-high-alert-escalating-tensions"},"modified":"2022-02-27T08:22:18","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T16:22:18","slug":"putin-puts-nuclear-forces-on-high-alert-escalating-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/putin-puts-nuclear-forces-on-high-alert-escalating-tensions","title":{"rendered":"Putin puts nuclear forces on high alert, escalating tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/putin-puts-nuclear-forces-on-high-alert-escalating-tensions2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>KYIV, Ukraine (AP) \u2014 In a dramatic escalation of East-West tensions over Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian nuclear forces put on high alert Sunday in response to what he called \u201caggressive statements\u201d by leading NATO powers.<\/p>\n<p>The order to put Russia\u2019s nuclear weapons in an increased state of readiness for launch raised fears that the crisis could boil over into nuclear warfare, whether by design or miscalculation.<\/p>\n<p>Amid the mounting tensions, Ukraine announced that a delegation would meet with Russian officials for talks. But the Kremlin\u2019s ultimate intentions toward Ukraine \u2014 and what steps might be enough to satisfy Moscow \u2014 remained unclear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KYIV, Ukraine (AP) \u2014 In a dramatic escalation of East-West tensions over Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian nuclear forces put on high alert Sunday in response to what he called \u201caggressive statements\u201d by leading NATO powers. The order to put Russia\u2019s nuclear weapons in an increased state of readiness for launch [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}