The expert noted that the Doomsday Clock has been moved forward by 30 seconds, and this is “a lot.”

Russian dictator Vladimir Putin may resort to using nuclear weapons. This opinion was expressed by military expert Petr Chernik in an interview with OBOZ.UA.

“Maybe. Let me give you a clear example. When the first nuclear bomb that the Americans tested exploded in 1945, literally a few months later an intellectual club was formed in the United States called the Doomsday Clock. This is an intellectual concept that calculates the potential danger of the death of humanity from the nuclear apocalypse. In 1962, when the nuclear crisis was boiling in the Caribbean and Cuba, when Khrushchev had already ordered the removal of protective shells from nuclear missiles and preparing them for a strike on America, then intellectuals believed that there were 2 minutes left before the apocalypse. “that nothing threatened Khrushchev personally, and there was no talk of the collapse of the Soviet Union at that time,” he noted.

The expert noticed that this “Doomsday Clock” has now been moved forward by 30 seconds. According to him, this is a lot.

“Not for a second, not for two, but for thirty. And they counted for a very long time. When the large-scale invasion began, nothing was heard about this concept. I followed it very carefully, but they only talked about it six months later. Why did they talk so late “Couldn’t they count faster? Because it’s mathematics. It’s not just analysis. There are 16 Nobel laureates in the field of exact sciences,” he explained.

Chernik noted that the calculations use supercomputers, which contain billions of variables. They run through potential scenarios of what could happen.

“And if they moved the needle 30 seconds forward, do you think they knew what they were doing? Nobody knows where the point of no return is. Putin is illegitimate and illegal. He is suspected in the international court, it is impossible to cancel it,” he stated .

Threat of use of nuclear weapons by Russia

Since the beginning of the Russian Federation’s full-scale war against Ukraine, the threat of Moscow using nuclear weapons has become much more real than before. Putin has threatened to take this step more than once. Dmitry Medvedev also resorted to such threats.

In addition, Putin announced the movement of some nuclear weapons to Belarus. According to the self-proclaimed president of the country, Alexander Lukashenko, this process has already been completed.

It recently became known that Russia has created a new “simulator of a ground-based nuclear explosion”, which they plan to use for military exercises.