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Escalate to de-escalate

an illustration showing escalation as an explosion and de-escalation as a hand preventing a bomb from exploding

Escalating to de-escalate with nuclear weapons: Research shows it’s a particularly bad idea

By Daniel R. Post | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons, Voices of Tomorrow

The Russian Tupolev Tu-22M3M can deliver nuclear weapons by missiles or by gravity bombs. Image originally posted to Flickr by Dmitry Terekhov at: https://flickr.com/photos/44400809@N07/19230388334. Licensed under cc-by-sa-2.0.

Russian military doctrine calls a limited nuclear strike “de-escalation.” Here’s why.

By Nikolai N. Sokov | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

photo of Vladimir Putin from official Twitter page of Kremlin

Inside Putin’s head: Paranoid? Calculating? Obsessed by the conspiracy theories of a rehabilitated Russian fascist?

By Charles B. Strozier, David M. Terman | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

Russian President Vladimir Putin talks with US President Donald Trump. Credit: www.kremlin.ru CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons.

Russian views of US nuclear modernization

By Dmitri Trenin | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons