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November 11, 2022

Op-ed: Russia’s Disastrous Invasion Proves Nukes Are Useless

Senior Policy Director John Erath wrote an op-ed for The National Interest arguing that Russia’s myriad failures in its invasion of Ukraine clearly demonstrate nuclear weapons’ lack of utility.

Russian defense minister Sergei Shoigu’s November 9 announcement that Russian troops would evacuate the city of Kherson and the right bank of the Dnipro River confirmed two things that everyone should have already known: that the war is going very badly for Russia and that—critically—nuclear weapons have no practical use. Read more

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