No nuclear weapon has been fired in the war in Ukraine, yet nuclear weapons have shaped it throughout. Students explore deterrence, Russian and US nuclear policy, the Budapest Memorandum, and Russia’s threats, then judge which effect has mattered most.
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- PowerPoint and Google Slides with concept intro, discussion, and current event overview
- A separate ready-to-print PDF document for each lesson level
- Thinking questions to connect to the concepts of security and sovereignty
- Critical thinking activity weighing different reasons ways nuclear weapons have shaped the war
- Research extension about the Cuban Missile Crisis and Able Archer 83
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