Nuclear War: What Are the Chances? And What Would You Do?

If it happens, life as we know it is over. I certainly won’t be sticking around.

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So President Biden says that nuclear risk is at its highest since the Cuban missile crisis of 1962.

But are we really likely to have a nuclear war?

Well, it depends on how desperate Putin is. The human ego is a strange thing. Sometimes it gets so big and fragile that it will do almost anything to avoid being destroyed. And then, once it seems that destruction is inevitable, it might decide to go out with a bang.

History is full of smaller-scale examples of people killing others as part of their suicide. Like the Welsh father who battered his family to death before hanging himself. Or the 13,500 suicide bombings that have happened over the years.

So, the question is, is Putin as deranged as a suicide bomber but with a global-sized bomb attached to himself?

There’s no way of knowing that for sure. None of us knows how much of what Putin says is empty threats or actual statements of intent.

This Reuters article from March 2022 gives the timeline of events leading to Russia’s invasion…