{"id":87416,"date":"2019-02-05T13:42:20","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T21:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/russian-media-threatens-us-with-100-megaton-nuclear-doomsday-device-after-key-arms-treaty-fails"},"modified":"2019-02-05T13:42:20","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T21:42:20","slug":"russian-media-threatens-us-with-100-megaton-nuclear-doomsday-device-after-key-arms-treaty-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/russian-media-threatens-us-with-100-megaton-nuclear-doomsday-device-after-key-arms-treaty-fails","title":{"rendered":"Russian media threatens US with 100 megaton nuclear doomsday device after key arms treaty fails"},"content":{"rendered":"

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With the dropping of the INF treaty, Putin and Trump have brought the dangers of nuclear war back into a more realistic possibility. I\u2019m not posting this to engage in a political discussion but nuclear war is definitely a lifeboat type of issue.<\/p>\n

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Russia\u2019s military and state-sponsored media have reacted with a fire and fury of their own to the news that the US will exit the Intermediate Nuclear Forces treaties, one of the last barriers to a full-on Cold War-like arms race in Europe \u2014 and there\u2019s already talk of a nuclear doomsday device visiting the US.<\/p>\n

The INF treaty banned land-based nuclear capable missiles with a range between 300 and 3,200 miles in 1987 when Russia and the US had populated much of Europe with intermediate-ranged nuclear missiles. The ban eliminated this entire class of missiles and went down as one of the most successful acts of arms control ever.<\/p>\n

The US and all of NATO concluded recently that Russia had spent years developing a banned nuclear-capable weapon, thereby making the treaty meaningless. The US responded by saying it would withdraw and design its own treaty-busting missiles. Russia said it would do the same, though many suspect they already have the missiles built.<\/p>\n

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With the dropping of the INF treaty, Putin and Trump have brought the dangers of nuclear war back into a more realistic possibility. I\u2019m not posting this to engage in a political discussion but nuclear war is definitely a lifeboat type of issue. Russia\u2019s military and state-sponsored media have reacted with a fire and fury [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":509,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,9,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks","category-geopolitics","category-military","category-treaties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87416","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\/509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}