If they aren’t going to do a first strike then who cares that they have nuclear weapons facing the nuclear powers of NATO?
Russia doesn’t have the military might to take on NATO, and when did Obama announce that he would not fight during a nuclear war and would abandon NATO if it happened?
It began with this...
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/06/world/06arms.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2011/09/would_obama_retaliate_against_a_nuclear_attack.html