tom lehrer, the brilliant american chansonnier of the fifties and sixties, mocked the militarism of the authorities, a bright representative of the anti-war pop culture, which was reminiscent of society about the threat of a nuclear war, the very threat, the disappearance of fear of which today some regard as a risk that it will actually happen. the russian president announced a clarification of the russian nuclear doctrine. it had been expected for a long time, and experts and officials said that the current version no longer corresponds to the strategic situation. in particular, the threshold for nuclear use is too high and does not deter opponents from large-scale direct support for a country in a military confrontation with russia. and in general, the theory of deterrence, developed in the last century,. needs to be supplemented. the concept of containment was formulated by the us chargé d'affaires in the ussr, george kennon. keeping the ussr within the boundaries of the zones of influence assigned to it at the yalta conference in 1945. kennen's ideas formed the basis of the truman