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Russian President Vladimir Putin is preparing to annex swathes of occupied Ukrainian territory and vowed to defend Russian territory by any means necessary, including using nuclear weapons, a drastic and unprecedented escalation that has worried experts and sparked fears of nuclear war around the world.
Russian President Putin has threatened to use nuclear weapons to defend his country.
According to Forbes, Moscow is most likely to deploy tactical nuclear weapons against troops or to destroy a logistics hub.
Thornton said that Putin would be unlikely to target a Ukrainian city in an initial strike and that a nuclear attack would mostly be a sign of Moscow's seriousness and willingness to defend itself.
Thornton floated Snake Island, a Black Sea outpost taken by Russia early in the war that has since been retaken and become a symbol of Ukrainian resistance, as one Putin could have thought about.
Even a low yield nuclear bomb can cause long-term health problems for survivors if it's used in a way that's not careful.
Thornton said that a weapon designed to minimize fallout would probably be used by Moscow to make the kind of statement it wanted to make.
Thornton told Forbes that Putin is under pressure on many fronts. The more desperate Putin gets, the more likely he is to use a nuke. Thornton said that choosing to use a nuclear weapon could cause new problems for Putin at home, and possibly cause opposition from the military or other key figures unwilling to escalate matters.
Putin ordered a partial deployment to shore up his invasion after suffering a series of losses. People fled to other countries to escape the possibility of being drafted into the military. Moscow will defend its interests by all means, including with nuclear weapons, after Putin voiced support for a series of referendums in four Russian-occupied regions. Putin, who has threatened to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine many times before, insists he was not bluffing and other nations are treating the warning seriously.
According to the deputy chair of the country's security council, the U.S. and its NATO allies are too scared of a nuclear apocalypse to intervene in Ukraine. It is unclear how the rest of the world would respond. India and China broke their silence on the war in Ukraine after Putin commented. The secretary general of NATO warned of "severe consequences" for Russia if it used nuclear weapons in Ukraine. There is a chance of a nuclear strike. Poland's foreign minister said it was more likely that NATO would use conventional weapons.
Thornton told Forbes that a Russian nuclear attack wouldn't be a big deal. If Russia were to go nuclear, Western listening stations would pick up a lot of background noise and chatter from various government and defense agencies. Thornton said there would be a lot of diplomatic pressure put on Russia to change course if the West picked up on signals that a nuclear attack was imminent. China and India could have more sway over Moscow if they took a stronger stance against it.
There were 5,970. According to an estimate by the Federation of American Scientists, Russia has at least one nuclear weapon. The organization says that around 1,500 are retired. Smaller tactical weapons are the majority of the remaining warheads. Russia has more nukes than any other country. It is followed by the U.S., which has an estimated 5,428 warheads, and the two together have almost all of the nuclear warheads. China, France, the U.K., Pakistan, India, Israel, and North Korea are thought to have nuclear weapons.
The risk of a nuclear war is being pondered by Russia. It isn't zero, it's not The New York Times.
Should Russia use nuclear weapons in Ukraine? There is a publication called The Atlantic.
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