Russia’s Saber-Rattling Prefaces Looming Debate on US Nuclear Weapons Policy, Modernization
Former Pentagon adviser says Kremlin has 10 times the tactical nukes its Western adversaries have and may be tempted ’to roll the dice’ in pressing advantage. News Analysis While it’s easy to dismiss Russia’s most recent threat to use tactical nuclear weapons, the circumstances and specificity—menacing British military installations “outside Ukraine”—are raising eyebrows, if not