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The nuclear realities behind Putin’s vow to deploy nuclear weapons for the first time The Russian invasion of Ukraine has sparked popular concern about the use of nuclear weapons in Europe or against the US. This degree of fear has not been witnessed since the Cold War’s conclusion. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s implicit threats to use nuclear weapons against “anyone interferes with us” in Ukraine, as well as his placing of more nuclear officers on shifts under a “special regime of combat duty,” have surprised NATO members. Russia and the United States each have thousands of nuclear weapons, the majority...
