Could Putin pull the trigger? This week marked an escalation in Russian president Vladimir Putin’s nuclear sabre-rattling, as he issued a new “warning” to the West. But some think Moscow’s red lines are losing their colour.
Russia raises the nuclear stakes
Doomsday?: President Putin imagined as Dr Strangelove by our illustrator (above) in a reference to the 1964 Cold War comedy film in which an American general goes crazy and nukes Moscow.