The Russian invasion of Ukraine heightens the terrifying prospect of nuclear war. Three experts on nuclear weapons and Russia will discuss the dangerous steps the U.S. and Russia are taking on the ladder of escalation. Russia is on nuclear alert.

The United States became a co-belligerent after the invasion by systematic delivery of arms to Ukraine. Putin responded by declaring arms convoys legitimate military targets. Trade has virtually ended. Russian finances are crippled by terminating SWIFT and seizing Russian foreign exchange reserves. In a Reuters poll, 74% of American support a no-fly zone which would move America from state of co-belligerency to belligerency.

Whom the Gods would destroy, they first endow with nuclear weapons. Former Pentagon senior nuclear advisor and MIT Professor Ted Postol will discuss the asymmetry in military technology between the U.S. and Russia that could precipitate Armageddon predicated on Russian error. The two powers have demonstrated a willingness to employ nuclear weapons and risk extinction. The Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings were superfluous to Japanese surrender without a bloody land invasion. The U.S in 1958 flirted with nuclear weapons against China in defense of the long-forgotten islands of Quemoy and Matsu. President Kennedy contemplated nuclear weapons during the Cuban Missile Crisis to remove Soviet missiles 90 miles from our shore while the United States brandished an equal Jupiter missile threat to Russia on its Turkish border.

Putin has poisoned his domestic political enemies and reduced Chechnya and Georgia to rubble. Through congressional abdication, our imperial presidency has usurped the war power. In flagrant violation of the Declare War Clause and the NATO treaty, Biden bugled on the day of the invasion: “the United States will defend every inch of NATO territory with the full force of American power.”

During the Cold War, Ted Postol was a principal advisor to the Chief of Naval Operations on nuclear weapons systems, nuclear war planning, Russian and U.S. anti-missile defense countermeasures, strategic anti-submarine warfare and Navy and Air Force Strategic Nuclear missile systems. Postol will elaborate on his discovery of the inferiority of Russia’s early warning systems cited in the Committee's first Ukraine salon, viewed over 750,000 times, and how this could trigger what Dr. Strangelove referred to as the “Doomsday Machine.”

Cynthia Lazaroff is the founder of Women Transforming Our Nuclear Legacy and NuclearWakeUpCall.Earth. An award-winning documentary filmmaker and author of Dawn of a New Armageddon, Cynthia is an activist dedicated to a world without nuclear weapons and serves on the boards of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and the American Committee for U.S.-Russia Accord.

Joe Cirincione is another voice of sanity among a war-drunk mob. He is distinguished fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He was long-term President of the nuclear nonproliferation Ploughshares Fund and author of Nuclear Nightmares: Securing the World Before It Is Too Late and Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons.


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