Serhii Plokhy
@SPlokhy
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My interview with the NEWSWEEK. The NUCLEAR AGE is back and so are the nuclear threats. Good thing is that we can learn from the mistakes and successess of the past. https://t.co/mPu2Maagfi
newsweek.com
“I don't see Trump being afraid of Russia using nuclear weapons,” Ukrainian historian Serhii Plokhy told Newsweek.
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Trump’s pronouncement was the step in the right direction. The problem is that counterthreats must be carefully considered, so as not to misfire and cause more confusion among adversaries and allies
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To avoid descending into war, each side has to fear the other equally.
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Really enjoyed my conversation with wonderful @FrancisDearnley on "Ukraine: The Latest" podcast. We discussed THE NUCLEAR AGE and of course the Russo-Ukrainian War ... https://t.co/y4ehska80c via @YouTube
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Read this newly published research by Emily Channell-Justice, Director of the Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program at HURI: "Displacement, Emplacement, and Reintegration: IDP Experiences in Ukraine, 2014-2021." @RID_networks 🔗 https://t.co/J0mmLoZGKd
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Thank you, Fiona for making that road so easy to walk and that journey so exciting and meaningful!
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Great talking to Harvard’s @SPlokhy for @novaramedia Would Moscow ever use ‘tactical nukes’ in Ukraine? Is Europe also a ‘collapsing empire’? Could China be the main beneficiary of the Russo-Ukraine war? & is a world of multipolarity also one of proliferation? Up soon.
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Excited to stream Netflix's "A House of Dynamite" tomorrow on Netflix? Be prepared. Read up on the geopolitics behind the nuclear arms race in this Lithub excerpt from @SPlokhy new book THE NUCLEAR AGE. https://t.co/6CKl5jTKDZ
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As Leo Szilard, Albert Einstein, and other refugees from Nazi-controlled Europe lived in fear of a Nazi atomic bomb, German physicists worried increasingly about the possibility of an American bomb…
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Thank you Matt Frei for a great discussion of THE NUCLEAR AGE!
"To a degree we're in a worse situation now than we were back in the 1930s." America is now at the centre of the rise of populism and 'authoritarian tendencies', says historian Serhii Plokhy.
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"We're on a nuclear highway with no lights, no rules, no regulations, no speed limits..." @SPlokhy warns of nuclear obliteration - and says #Trump and #Putin have both made the risk worse. @GoldbergRadio @BylineTimes
https://t.co/4m1irGn44I
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Adrian Goldberg talks to Harvard University Professor Serhii Plokhy about his new book, 'The Nuclear Age'. They talk about Vladimir Putin's weaponisation of nuclear power plants and discuss the rea...
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Thank you @lukeharding1968 for wonderful discussion of THE NUCLEAR AGE!
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Dear London friends and readers, I look forward to seeing you at this event on Monday: Serhii Plokhy - The New Nuclear Arms Race | How To Academy
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Harvard’s Serhii Plokhy confronts the critical question of our age: what can we learn from the first nuclear arms race to stop the new one?
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David Patrikarakos, The Nuclear Age by Serhii Plokhy — why nations want the bomb https://t.co/6rJ4Dkxk2t via @ft
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Plokhy’s urgent history focuses on the fear of annihilation as the driving force behind the arms race
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JOHN BOLTON on ‘The Nuclear Age’ by Serhii Plokhy | Book Review - WSJ
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Many advocated the internationalization of atomic weaponry after the war. Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle did not.
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A great discussion indeed!
"What Will Historians Consider a Ukrainian Victory?" This was a really interesting conversation at @yes_ukraine, moderated by the one and only @tomfriedman, with @TimothyDSnyder, Serhii Plokhy, and Yaroslav Hrytsak.
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My comments on CBS on Lavrov’s shirt and the Alaska summit: they want the Soviet superpower status back but the world moved on
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YALTA and MUNICH became dirty words in Eastern Europe. Can the same happen to ALASKA?
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In 1945, the map of Europe was redrawn in Yalta without input from the affected countries. Ukraine and Europe fear a repeat in Alaska.
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