Russia-Ukraine War: Will Russia use nuclear weapons against Ukraine? | ABP News

During the real world of the Cold War, however, the threat of "mutual assured destruction" proved to be an effective enough deterrent on numerous occasions, and worries of nuclear annihilation began to drop significantly in future decades, whether correctly or incorrectly. Today, however, talk over Russian President Vladimir Putin's possible deployment of so-called low-yield, or tactical nuclear weapons in his assault on Ukraine is setting off nuclear alarms for a new generation.