Putin’s Poseidon: Russia’s Doomsday Weapon and Trump Card? – The New American

The threat of nuclear holocaust once figured prominently in our psyches. In the 1950s, schoolchildren did duck-and-cover drills to prepare for atomic attack. The 1983 film The Day After, portraying a nuclear exchange and its hopeless aftermath, terrified audiences and created pressure for disarmament talks. Yet while the Cold War’s end has allayed these fears, …