26 minutes agoCIA: Russia can use nuclear weapons
Periskopi(4 years ago)
(4 years ago)The US secret service, the CIA, does not rule out Russia in the future using small nuclear weapons in the war in Ukraine. This could happen because of military failures.
There is no evidence of possible use so far
“But at the same time, he stressed that so far there was no “very practical evidence” of preparations for using such weapons.
Nuclear tactical weapons are weapons, the range of action and the explosive power of which is lower than that of strategic nuclear weapons, which can cover much longer distances. Russia has a nuclear tactical weapons arsenal with an explosive power lower than that of bombs thrown by the United States in Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II.
The “strategy escalates to deespass”.
There is a principle in Russian military doctrine of “escalation to deescalate”, which envisions the first blow with a low-powered nuclear weapon if Russia lags behind in a conflict with the West.
The main hope would be for the other side to back off after this signal so that the full mutual annihilation from the nuclear war of large strategic atomic bombs would be avoided.
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