Much of the pro-Kremlin information manipulation and disinformation is underpinned by the exploitation of people’s fears and anxieties. There is a topic that can induce paralysing anxiety and blood-curdling fears like nothing else. This is the threat of nuclear annihilation. We continue our series exposing pro-Kremlin information manipulation tactics over the last 1 000 and 4 000 days by recapping how Russia has used its nuclear sabre-rattling and feigned concern about nuclear safety to draw