Financial Times reported that the documents show that russia has war-gamed avenues for employing tactical weapons and alleged that the files show that russia has a lower threshold for using nuclear weapons “if the desired result can’t be achieved through conventional means” than russian officials have ever publicly admitted, reported by ISW.
FT stated that the criteria for a nuclear response vary between “an enemy incursion on russian territory” to more specific parameters, such as “the destruction of 20 percent of russia’s strategic ballistic missile submarines.”
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FT noted that unspecified experts have confirmed that the documents remain relevant to russian nuclear doctrine despite the fact that they are over a decade old.
It has long been established that russian nuclear doctrine includes the option to use nuclear weapons in conventional wars at thresholds much lower than Western states.
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