“‘Who Will Blink First?’ Is Nuclear War Between Russia and the U.S. Possible?”

That is the headline on a lengthy feature published in Russia’s RT yesterday, which mulled over the current strategic confrontation between Russia and the United States, and raised the issue of a possible nuclear war. One expert interviewed by RT, Vladimir Vasliev, a senior researcher at the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences, said: