The Monetary Instances has obtained secret Russian navy recordsdata which element how Russian forces practice to make use of tactical nuclear weapons towards each NATO and China.
A narrative-map within the article Russian navy skilled to focus on websites inside Europe with nuclear-capable missiles (paywalled) reveals numerous goal areas in Europe and the Pacific for Russian standard and nuclear missiles. Within the Pacific these targets embody cities in each China and North Korea, who’re usually seen as allies of Russia.
Targets in Europe embody cities in France, Germany, Norway and the UK. The FT claims that the Russian navy recordsdata “describe a threshold for utilizing tactical nuclear weapons that’s decrease than Russia has ever publicly admitted”.
In keeping with Sweden’s SVT Russia presently has 5,580 nuclear warheads. SVT’s current investigation into World Nuclear Forces features a quote from the Swedish authorities that the “Russian inhabitants is being primed for a state of affairs by which will probably be thought of professional for Russia to make use of nuclear weapons”.
The World Nuclear Forces article consists of an interactive nuclear warhead simulator which lets you discover the probably affect of several types of nuclear warhead on totally different areas world wide. For instance within the screenshot above I’ve used the simulator to discover the impact of a 100 kiloton Russian warhead dropped on Shenyang (one of many Russian targets in China recognized by the Russian navy recordsdata).
