The peace movements of the 60s/70s/80s grew up "in the shadow of the mushroom cloud" [1] not only aware of their legacy from WW2, but it was constantly drilled

The peace movements of the 60s/70s/80s grew up "in the shadow of the mushroom cloud" [1] not only aware of their legacy from WW2, but it was constantly drilled into them that there might be a nuclear attack against them at any second of any day. That threat hasn't existed since 1991. That same generation was also very cognizant of nuclear disaster, as both the Three Mile Island & Chernoybl disasters had just happened. So, they weren't only well aware of what the steaks were, it was figuratively drilled into them from childhood. I'm sure most people now don't even consider a realistic concern, but just more posturing by two authoratative world leaders. In Putin's case, I'd be mostly inclined to agree with that position, considering he's in a stalemate in Ukraine and has basically reached his "wunderwaffe" stage of the war, where he has essentially nothing left to use to fight an entrenched war with and the only way he sees his position to get anything out with through any sort of diplomacy is via fear. Presumably, he knows it's not a tactic that could ever work. Perhaps it's more for his domestic audience than anything else. [1] Hammer to Fall by Queen https://genius.com/Queen-hammer-to-fall-lyrics https://genius.com/Queen-hammer-to-fall-lyrics [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wunderwaffe?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wunderwaffe?wprov=sfla1