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Nuclear rhetoric explodes as Russia responds to Ukraine's missile attack

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The prospect of the Ukraine war becoming a nuclear conflict has appeared to increase. Russia says Ukraine has now fired US missiles into the country. Hours after that attack, Russia confirmed a change to its nuclear doctrine - lowering the threshold at which it would consider a nuclear strike.

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