Fact Check: US Nuclear Explosion Guidance on Masking Not Recently Changed After Putin Order

Fact Check: US Nuclear Explosion Guidance on Masking Not Recently Changed After Putin Order
Military specialists walk past a Russian Topol intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) at the exposition field in Kubinka Patriot Park outside Moscow on August 22, 2017. Alexander Nemenov/AFP/Getty Images
Jack Phillips
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Federal guidelines on masking in the case of a nuclear explosion were not changed this week, said a spokesperson for the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Tuesday.

The guidelines, posted on the Ready.gov website, were shared widely on social media after Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday said he would raise his country’s nuclear deterrence level, sparking fears that a nuclear conflict could break out amid Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
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