The war in Ukraine has led some military experts to rethink the conventional wisdom on nuclear weapons.
with nuclear-capable Iskander missile systems in Kaliningrad, a Russian territory within striking distance of European capitals and military installations.. After weeks of bluster, the assurance was difficult to parse.told the Washington Post late last month. “You cannot ignore that as you make decisions about how to respond.”
“We have been so worried about nuclear weapons and World War III that we have allowed ourselves to be fully deterred,”, the former NATO supreme allied commander, said to Radio Free Europe in early April. A joint strategic exercise of the armed forces of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus in 2021.
The National Defense Control Center in Moscow oversees the test of the Russian hypersonic missile system called Avangard in 2018. And even though Russia’s offensive has proved ineffective so far, its indiscriminate shelling and bombing have leveled Ukrainian cities like Mariupol and Kharkiv. “Damages from the Russian use of tactical nuclear weapons are no more horrific than the current damages being experienced in Ukraine from conventional weapons,” Gardiner wrote.Nor does Gardiner believe that a nuclear attack by Russia would require a nuclear response by the West.
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