Does the US know more about Putin's nuclear threat?
Linke warns of "mistakes" - that's how experts assess the situation
Created: 09/10/2022, 14:05
By: Victoria Krumbeck
The US President warned of a nuclear attack by Russia.
The left called on the federal government to comment.
Meanwhile, experts assess the nuclear situation.
Munich – In the course of the Ukraine war, the fear of the use of nuclear weapons is growing.
The war of Russia's ruler Vladimir Putin is going differently than he had imagined.
The pressure on him is increasing - his rhetoric for the use of nuclear weapons sharper.
US President Joe Biden takes Putin's threats seriously and warns of a nuclear war.
The left called on the federal government to take a clear position.
Meanwhile, experts assess the danger of using nuclear weapons.
Nuclear weapons in the Ukraine war - the left urges the federal government to comment
Concern about a nuclear war is also spreading in Germany.
The left demanded a statement from the federal government and a peace initiative.
"When the US President warns of a nuclear Armageddon, all the alarm bells must ring in the federal government," said Dietmar Bartsch, leader of the Left Party, on Friday in Berlin.
According to the left-wing politician, while the USA was already expecting a Russian attack on Ukraine in February, the German government underestimated the danger.
Dietmar Bartsch, parliamentary group leader of the left.
© Kay Nietfeld/dpa
"This mistake must not be repeated," stressed Bartsch.
More and more people are rightly afraid of nuclear war.
"The Chancellor should address the population together with the Foreign Minister and explain his government's next foreign policy steps," demanded Bartsch.
"We need peace initiatives from Berlin, Paris and Washington."
Use of nuclear weapons - military train is of little concern to experts
American secret services are on the lookout for indicators of a possible use of nuclear weapons.
The use of large strategic nuclear bombs is considered rather unlikely - but not the use of smaller "tactical" nuclear weapons.
The Russian air fleet and missile systems are reportedly capable of carrying tactical nuclear weapons.
Although they have a lower explosive power, they can be easily exchanged for conventional warheads.
Joe Biden warned that there was a nuclear threat for the first time since the Cuban Missile Crisis.
A few days ago, footage of a Russian military train moving to the Ukrainian border was shared.
British media reported that the train is linked to a branch of the Russian army responsible for nuclear weapons.
Western experts are less worried about the military train with possible nuclear weapons.
Nothing could be seen on the video recordings, as the American proliferation expert Jeffrey Lewis
tweeted, according to the
FAZ .
The transports can also be observed constantly in Russia.
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Russia's nuclear weapons - experts assess the risk as "low".
For months, the Americans have been trying to use simulations from the Pentagon to determine how the United States can react to the Russian aggressor in different situations.
The results are sobering because they "differ dramatically depending on whether Vladimir Putin's target is a remote Ukrainian military base, a small town, or a 'demonstration' blast over the Black Sea," reports the US newspaper
New York Times
.
The danger of using nuclear weapons is assessed differently.
“It used to be zero, now it's a little higher.
But it is still very low, ”said the nuclear weapons expert Moritz Kütt from the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg to the
ARD capital studio.
"I don't believe in scaremongering at all," said Wolfgang Ischinger, former head of the Munich Security Conference, in an interview with
ntv
.
"And I can see that a relatively large number of people are doing Putin's business at the moment in order to produce exactly that, especially in Germany," Ischinger assessed the situation.
(vk/dpa)
