Global Challenges: Putin and his atomic potential, danger to the world?

Nuclear attack: does Russia represent a serious nuclear threat?

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(CNN) --

Russia is the country in the world that has the most nuclear bombs and all this makes it a reality that is of great concern to the international community in the midst of the war with Ukraine.

Are we on the verge of danger?

José Levy analyzes it in the next episode of

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What a bleak scene!

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov assured that if a war were to come between Russia and NATO, then it could become nuclear in

a minute.

• What to do in case of a nuclear attack?

And this he said just a few days after his own president, Vladimir Putin, put nuclear units on high alert as well.

All this in the midst of a large-scale Russian military invasion inside Ukraine that seems to be getting more and more complicated for Russia and in an international scenario in which Russia feels more and more isolated, to the point that there are those who say that Something like this can be dangerous.

Greetings.

José Levy speaks to you in a new CNN podcast Global Challenges.

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The Soviet nuclear defense system is divided into two parts: the first is the strategic system and the second is the non-strategic.

The strategic system are those missiles that have the capacity to reach the United States.

The non-strategic is the one that has the capabilities to operate shorter.

All this started when Russia expressed its opposition to that open door policy of the NATO Atlantic Alliance.

It has been seeing in recent years

how countries that in the past were allies in the Warsaw Pact or in the Soviet Union went over to the other side and today are part of the Atlantic Alliance,

led by the United States.

Then Vladimir Putin expressed his opposition and managed to spark a diplomatic dialogue with the main leaders of the West.

This after he massed more than 150,000 troops on his border with Ukraine, but he still hadn't fired a single missile.

What is happening there?

Listen to the rest on the podcast.

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