The chances of an escalating confrontation leading to the use of nuclear weapons in Europe are still extremely low
. Were the situation to get drastically worse, however, would Russia really drop a nuclear bomb on a NATO country? Would it use one against Ukraine?
For most of the cold war the Soviet Union and America treated nuclear weapons as the ultimate deterrent. Targeted mostly on cities, strategic nuclear weapons were so destructive that their use was also almost unimaginable. Officially the Soviet Union renounced the first use of nuclear weapons in 1982. The American and Soviet defence establishments mostly knew what each other was doing.
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