1、 Will Russia Use Nuclear Weapons in Ukraine?Helit Barel|No.1578|March 24,2022 The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the nuclear context provided by President Putin,who has elevated the nuclear alert of his forces,immediately returned the subject of nuclear deterrence to the agenda.Will the nuclear tab
2、oo be broken for the first time in 77 years,or will the balance of nuclear deterrence be maintained?The real risk involves the tactical weapons,and even there,the likelihood of use is low,despite fears that the Putins calculation of profits and losses will lead him to escalate the campaign.With the
3、Russian invasion of Ukraine,and following a number of measures taken by Russian President Vladimir Putin in the nuclear realm,the threat that nuclear weapons might be used has returned to the international agenda after a long absence.Indeed,a number of measures taken by Putin have given the current
4、crisis a nuclear framework:Russia conducted an exercise of its nuclear forces a few days before the invasion;Putin raised the nuclear alert level for the first time since 1991(although no actual proof of this is evident);and the President of Belarus took action to change the countrys constitution to
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