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New Survey: Majority of Hungarians See Real Risk of Nuclear War

• 25 Apr 2023 5:42 AM
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Fully 54% of Hungarians consider it “a real danger” that the Russia-Ukraine war could escalate into a third world war and 55% think that one of the warring sides could deploy nuclear arms, according to a survey released by the Nézőpont Institute.

When the war broke out more than a year ago, many Hungarians believed that it would end soon, Nézőpont said.

Today, only 42% of Hungarians believe that there is no realistic threat of a world war and 41% sees no realistic threat of the deployment of nuclear arms either, the think-tank said.

Among those who fear a world war, 81% also fear the deployment of nuclear arms and only 16% think that a world war would be fought without such weapons.

Those who do not fear a global conflict (77%), mostly do not fear destruction caused by nuclear weapons either, while 21% consider the use of nuclear weapons in a local conflict to be conceivable even without the risk of a world war, Nézőpont said.

Nézőpont conducted its survey of 1,000 adults by phone between April 17 and 19.

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