So much for a world without the atomic bomb. Not so long ago, President Barack Obama said he believed such a future was in the cards. Now, after Russia's annexation of Crimea, not so much. Many states in Russia's neighborhood are giving new attention to nuclear protection. "Although there's a very small risk of Russia acting against Poland, that risk is much bigger now than it was just a few weeks ago," Stanislaw Koziej, head of Poland's National Security Bureau, tells Newsweek. The most important deterrence, he says, is "NATO solidarity and the presence of the U.S. military in Europe. Nuclear deterrence is a very important factor that NATO has at its disposal, and it's becoming increasingly important."
Newsweek: After Ukraine, countries that border Russia start thinking about nuclear deterrents
A man walks past the check point at the entrance to Slovyansk,controlled by separatists, as tires and trees are being burnt to make a smoke curtain. There is an ani-terrorist opperation being held by Ukrainian authorities in Slovyansk, Donetsk Oblast.
