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Nuclear war threat again?
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With Moscow training its troops in Ukraine to use nuclear weapons on the battlefield and fears of Iran resorting to nukes, fear of nuclear conflict is again looming. “nuclear war is as dangerous to civilization…. as the incoming asteroid was to the dinosaurs, 66 million years ago – a civilization-ending event,” says ANNIE JACOBSEN – author of the new best-seller "NUCLEAR WAR: A SCENARIO."

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