Introduction

This is easily the most dangerous war for the US, the West, and the world in decades. The Iraq war posed nowhere near the dangers that this war poses. Washington and Moscow continue to have thousands of nuclear tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles pointed at each other's large and mid-sized cities. Using them without even believing that the other side intends to use them as a justified offensive or defensive tactic is very much still on the table for war planners in both capitals.