Nuclear power, considered a relic of the Cold War on the military level and discredited by the Fukushima accident on the civilian level, is making a comeback with
the war in Ukraine.
It rehabilitates both deterrence, which is essential to respond to the existential threat that Russia poses to Europe, and civil nuclear power, without which it cannot ensure either its energy sovereignty or its climate transition.
The invasion of Ukraine validates the effectiveness of deterrence.
Russia, as for the annexation of Crimea in 2014, sanctuarized its aggression and its territory, by immediately exercising the threat of a nuclear escalation.
Conversely, it took care to avoid any strike on a NATO member country.
Vladimir Putin's decision to put his nuclear forces on a “special combat regime” was answered by the intensification of air and sea patrols without any change in posture on the part of the allies.
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