Is Russia breaking friendship with China? What the secret military documents reveal.. As of: March 1, 2024, 6:55 p.m By: Lisa Mahnke Classified Russian military papers reveal nuclear plans.

China is surprisingly also an issue. Is Putin messing with Xi Jinping? Moscow - Classified military documents are intended to show that Russia's inhibition threshold for the use of tactical nuclear weapons is significantly lower than previously assumed. The 29 secret documents from 2008 to 2014, obtained by the Financial Times, also discuss a possible response to an invasion by China.