Russian President Vladimir Putin said during a human rights council meeting on December 7 that the threat of nuclear war is rising. Yet he insisted that his nation has not “gone mad” and would not use its nuclear weapons first. He said:
“Such a threat is growing, it would be wrong to hide it. But we have not gone mad. We are aware of what nuclear weapons are. We aren’t about to run around the world brandishing this weapon like a razor.”
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