00:00Russia conducted two separate nuclear weapons exercises in May 2026,
00:04and defense experts say the timing was not accidental.
00:08Each exercise came directly after a major Russian military setback in Ukraine.
00:13A new analysis from the German Council on Foreign Relations says Russia's updated nuclear doctrine
00:18now explicitly permits nuclear weapons use if a conventional attack
00:23endangers the existence of the Russian Federation.
00:26That phrase is deliberately vague,
00:28and it could apply to Ukraine cutting off Russian oil routes
00:32or NATO intercepting Russian aircraft.
00:35Defense planners have mapped eight U.S. states at highest direct risk
00:39from Russian nuclear delivery systems
00:41based on NORAD-tracked ICBM trajectories and submarine patrol zones.
00:46These states are not in Eastern Europe.
00:49They are in America, and the doomsday clock stands at 90 seconds to midnight.
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