Channel: Owen Jones

Category: News & Politics

Description: As international tensions rise after Russia's brutal and illegal invasion of Ukraine, this is a conversation we need to have: could nuclear war happen? Russia is armed with 7,000 nuclear warheads, and the West has thousands, too. Some are calling for a no fly zone, which in practice means a 'shoot Russian military planes out of the sky zone'. Could military escalation happen, how easy could that tip into a nuclear war - and if nuclear war happens, what would that actually mean? We're joined by Beatrice Fihn, Executive Director of the Nobel Prize-winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, to talk us through the hideous reality. You may find this distressing, but it's a necessary conversation to have. Please like, subscribe - and help us take on the right-wing media here: patreon.com/owenjones84