Jean-Marc Le Page is an Associate Professor and Doctor of History. He published Atomic Bomb: From Hiroshima to Trump (Past compounds, 2021), the updated version of which will be released on August 24 under the title: Nuclear threat: from Hiroshima to the Ukrainian crisis.
LE FIGARO. – UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres recently announced that “humanity is a misunderstanding, a miscalculation of nuclear annihilation“. How did we get here? Should these words be relativized?
Jean-Marc LE PAGE. –Antonio Guterres echoes the comments of the Russian authorities, because Vladimir Putin had a whole warlike rhetoric at the time of his invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. In particular, the President of the Russian Federation asked the Chief of the Defense Staff to put the strategic forces in combat readiness. These words are rhetorical to employ what I call, with Dominic Mongin, a form of offensive containment; we are talking about the closure of Ukraine…
Source: Le Figaro
