Vladimir Putin wants the world to think he'll use nuclear weapons in his war with Ukraine. Peter Scoblic, author of The Russian Nuclear Threat Explained, explains why this is perhaps a very sound strategy for him. Do you ever visit Vox.com? Do you watch Vox stuff on YouTube or Netflix? We want to know all those kinds of things because they help us make a whole host of decisions.
Vladimir Putin keeps threatening to use smaller nuclear weapons to win his war. Author J. Peter Scoblic says “there’s no such thing as small nukes.”
This episode was produced by Miles Bryan and Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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