Intelligence Matters

Putin's Threat of Nuclear War: Former CIA Moscow Chief of Station Rolf Mowatt-Larssen

Oct 5, 2022

47:06

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Strategic Nuclear Weapons Are a Very Different Challenge Than Strategic Atomic Weapons

02:18

Is the Use of Nuclear Weapons on the Battlefield a Good Idea?

01:49

The Key Lesson Learned From the Cuban Missile Crisis

04:10

Introduction

2min

The Nuclear Threat Initiative - What's It's Mission?

4min

Is Putin's Goal Here Now to Kind of Freeze Where We Are in the Ground With Negotiations?

1min

Putin's Taking Back Russian Territories

2min

Vladimir Putin's Threats to Use Tactical Nuclear Weapons Are a Bluff

3min

Vladimir Putin's Succession Plan Is a Good Idea

2min

Is the Use of Nuclear Weapons on the Battlefield a Good Idea?

2min

Strategic Nuclear Weapons Are a Very Different Challenge Than Strategic Atomic Weapons

2min

Is Putin Preparing for the Use of Tactical Nuclear Weapons?

2min

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What Do You Think of the Russians Using Tactical Nuclear Weapons?

5min

11.

Is There a Threat to NATO to Russia?

2min

12.

The Takeout With Major Garrett

2min

13.

The Rise of Tactical Nuclear Weapons

2min

14.

Are You Concerned About the Use of Nuclear Weapons by Putin?

2min

15.

The Key Lesson Learned From the Cuban Missile Crisis

4min

16.

Putin's Energy in the Winner

3min

17.

What's the Best Case?

3min

In this episode of Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell speaks with former CIA Moscow Chief of Station and William J. Perry Distinguished Fellow at the Nuclear Threat Initiative Rolf Mowatt-Larssen about Putin's nuclear threats and how U.S. policymakers should respond. Mowatt-Larssen stresses that Western leaders need to take Putin's threats seriously as we enter the highest point in global nuclear risks since the Cuban Missile Crisis 60 years ago. He details why as Ukrainians are winning on the battlefield, they are not ready to sit at the negotiating table.

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