00:00Vladimir Putin has issued renewed nuclear threats against four NATO states,
00:04and the United States is being forced to decide how to respond.
00:07Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Finland
00:11have all been named in Russian state media as potential targets.
00:15If they continue supporting Ukraine's military campaign,
00:19these are NATO allies.
00:21Under Article 5, an attack on one is an attack on all,
00:25including the United States.
00:26NATO defense ministers are now in closed-door discussions
00:30about what threshold would trigger a formal Article 5 consultation.
00:34Russia's military position is collapsing,
00:37losing 91 square miles of Ukrainian territory last month alone.
00:41When cornered, Russian doctrine calls for nuclear escalation to break the stalemate.
00:46The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists,
00:49which tracks nuclear risk more closely than any organization on Earth,
00:53has warned that these threats are becoming dangerously normalized.
00:57The world is treating nuclear warnings as politics.
01:01They should be treated as what they are,
01:03a real and existential danger.
01:05The Bulletin of Atom
01:05The Bulletin of Atom
01:05The Bulletin of Atom
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