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Nobel Peace Laureate: US, NATO Playing Nuclear Brinkmanship With Russia

NATO decisions at the alliance’s Warsaw summit are provoking Russia with a game of nuclear bluff that is moving the "Doomsday Clock" of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists almost to midnight, global peace campaigner Helen Caldicott told Sputnik.

"Surely, the politicians and military personnel in Washington must realize that they are playing nuclear chicken with Russia," Caldicott, founding president of Physicians for Social Responsibility, the co-winner of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize noted.

The two-day NATO summit on Friday and Saturday approved the deployment of four battalions on Russian borders, including the dispatch of 1,000 US troops to Poland, and rubber-stamped the deployment of Patriot anti-missile batteries and radars in Poland and Romania. 

Moreover, the summit also invited the former Soviet republic of Georgia to join the military alliance.