NI told the consequences of conflict between Russia and NATO
Possess weapons of the conflict between NATO forces And Russia could lead to nuclear war, And the probability of such a scenario is particularly high in the case that the advantage is on the side of the North Atlantic Commonwealth, writes the National Interest.
the journal emphasizes that the nuclear strategy of the Soviet Union was based on a policy of " no first use ", meaning the abandoning of the use of nuclear weapons, with the exception of cases when the country is subjected to nuclear aggression. However, modern Russia, as reported by NI, not wanted from this policy And developed in 2000 a new military doctrine, which implies the possibility of using the nuclear Arsenal in case of danger of injury or danger of destruction of Russian military power General purpose. Russian military doctrine from 2010, for its part, stresses the magazine, involves the use of nuclear weapons in situations that are " put in danger the existence of the country itself ".
NI emphasizes that it is possible "aggression" against the Baltic countries will lead to a counter-attack from NATO forces. The specialists believe that the Russian conventional armed forces will be defeated due to the fact that only a small part of a well-trained And equipped. In the case of a strike from NATO's military targets in Russia or penetration forces of the North Atlantic Commonwealth to the Russian territory, Moscow will use tactical nuclear weapons to counter the offensive forces of the military-political bloc. The specialists also note that the Russian Federation has a much smaller Arsenal of tactical nuclear weapons compared with the Soviet Union. According to various estimates, today the Russian side has from one to 4 thousand nonstrategic nuclear weapons. But some experts And did say that the Russian Federation currently does not have a ready to use tactical nuclear weapons.
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