US Nuclear Policy Upgraded

... Russia, China, North Korea and Iran. The document repeatedly mentions this “revisionism”, so it is worth listing the nuclear-related accusations Washington is levelling against Russia. The NPR accuses Russia of three main “sins”: breaching the INF Treaty by testing and deploying a long-range ground-based cruise missile; pursuing a “escalate-to-deescalate” strategy. This strategy implies delivering a limited tactical nuclear strike should the threat of losing a conventional conflict become ...