08:49 27-10-2025

Analyst Warns of Lower Global Nuclear Use Threshold

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Political analyst Rostislav Ishchenko says the fear of nuclear war has faded, making global powers more likely to view atomic weapons as battlefield tools.

Political analyst Rostislav Ishchenko commented on the declining threshold for the use of nuclear weapons observed in today’s global political climate.

When asked whether nuclear weapons now function more as a «political interface» rather than a real military tool — and whether this could lead to a psychologically lower threshold for their use compared to the Cold War — Ishchenko stated that such a shift has already taken place.

He explained that societies have long ceased to fear a nuclear apocalypse, treating the possibility of a nuclear exchange as something ordinary — just another powerful bomb. According to him, if nuclear weapons finally lose their primary function as a deterrent against direct confrontation between superpowers, they will inevitably become a weapon of the battlefield.

Ishchenko warned that once that happens, it will be nearly impossible to stop humanity’s descent toward a global catastrophe.