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Putin Wouldn’t Shrink from Starting Chernobyl 2.0 in Ukraine
The standoff and shelling at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant puts all of humanity in peril.
Preparing for the worst in Zaporizhzhia.
Photographer: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images
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The history of warfare has no precedent for what is happening right now in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. Never before has a nuclear power plant been on the front line of a major war, and indeed a main object of the warring parties’ strategies.
How Russia, Ukraine and the rest of the world handle this moment of peril is becoming a test of how war will be waged in our time — and whether it can ever be limited.