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Could Massachusetts be a target for a nuclear attack? Legislation aims to find out

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NBC Boston, April 2022

Russia has said that the threat of a nuclear war is very real and defense stocks have skyrocketed since the invasion in Ukraine, prompting Cold War-era concerns even in Massachusetts. There is a bill pending in the State House that would create a citizens’ commission to study the potential threat and look into the state’s involvement with nuclear weapon production. The Massachusetts Legislature has less than a week to vote on the issue before a May 4 deadline.

Harvard scholar Oleh Kotsyuba and Northeastern University professors Mai’a Cross and Pablo Calderon weighed in on whether Massachusetts should create this type of commission and how real the nuclear threat really is to the Bay State during NBC10 Boston’s weekly series, “Russia-Ukraine Q&A.”

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