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Peter Huessy explains that Russia views low-yield, tactical nuclear weapons as usable battlefield tools

Senior Fellow Peter Huessy joined The John Batchelor Show to discuss Russian nuclear doctrine.

On The John Batchelor Show, Peter Huessy explains how Russian doctrine treats low-yield, tactical nuclear weapons as usable battlefield tools for coercion and warfighting, in contrast to the U.S. approach of keeping such weapons under central command, and warns of the limited transparency surrounding Russian and Chinese arsenals.

Peter Huessy is a Senior Fellow at the Gold Institute for International Strategy, a Washington D.C. based foreign policy and defense think tank.

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