Putin confidant warns: Nuclear attack is “most likely” coming. Putin threatens to use nuclear weapons if Western troops fight in Ukraine.
Secret files show that Russia's threshold for nuclear war is lower than expected. Russian military files from 2008 to 2014 appear to indicate that Russia’s threshold for first-use nuclear use is lower Than Western military experts had assumed. A mushroom cloud rises over the Nevada desert after an atomic bomb explodes in the desert. The U.S. is also preparing for such a scenario.