What Will Change in a New Edition of Russia’s Nuclear Doctrine?

It would be a gross mistake to consider the changes to the nuclear doctrine as a response to the Ukraine crisis alone During a meeting of the Russian Security Council standing conference on nuclear deterrence on September 25, it was announced that changes would be made to the document titled “Basic Principles of State Policy of the Russian Federation on Nuclear Deterrence.” At the time of writing, the revised version of the document had not yet been signed into law by presidential decree, but this...