The war in Ukraine seems to be heading, step by step and inexorably, towards the first use of nuclear weapons, something unprecedented since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. It is the consequence of the passage, for years, towards a Second Nuclear Age and the normalization of the concept of Offensive Deterrence, which Russia has been putting into practice since the early stages of the conflict to modulate the degree of Western involvement. If Russia finally, faced with the threat of complete military defeat and the loss of conquered territories, resorts to atomic weapons, it will have done nothing other than confirm some of the theories that we explain in this article.
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