The current phase expands participation to additional countries and concentrates on issues such as prevention of major equipment failures, safety classification of systems, and scenarios involving loss of external power supplies.
Russia will be weaker, its arsenals depleted, and its prestige diminished when the dust finally settles.
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Peter Suciu,
Forbes.com,
16 Jan. 2026
In polling conducted by YouGov in April 2025, majorities in Denmark, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Sweden opposed their countries’ developing their own nuclear arsenals, and even higher percentages opposed American nuclear weapons being stationed in their country.
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