Yahoo News: Russia is about to give Vladimir Putin the power to launch nuclear strikes first
Vladimir Putin could be given the power to launch nuclear strikes first under plans to change the law in Russia.
Currently Russia’s military doctrine bans the initial use of nuclear weapons unless Russia is threatened by weapons of mass destruction.
But senators in the Federation Council have reportedly recommended that Russia should be allowed to retaliate with nuclear weapons if the country is attacked by conventional, “non-nuclear strategic weapons”.
The move comes after Donald Trump announced that the US plans to withdraw from the landmark Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty signed by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987.
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