[Sawdring]

Can there really be any discussion about war between NATO and Russia without the use of tactical and strategic nuclear weapons? Every Russian white paper stresses the use of nuclear weapons if Russia’s interests are threatened in it’s sphere of interest. Of course, the papers don’t usually describe what that interest is.

[ansel12]

Bull, just what is going on in the world that suddenly makes Russia want to create a nuclear war?

Seriously, what is this end of the world happening that I am missing that while Russia was not stupid enough for WWIII, during the Cold War as millions died in wars around the world, and that finally resulted in their total defeat and end of empire, that suddenly now, something is going on somewhere, that is so big, that Russia has to destroy itself in a blaze of nuclear fire?

[dragnet2]

Every Russian white paper stresses the use of nuclear weapons if Russia’s interests are threatened in it’s sphere of interest.

So why did the Soviets not use them in 1989?