A Nuclear World Tour

Nuclear weapons are imperative to Russia’s national security strategy. Siegfried S. Hecker, Former Director of Los Alamos National Laboratory and Senior Fellow, Stanford, discusses Putin’s use of strategic long-range and tactical nuclear weapons as deterrence and threat mechanisms. Is the US is falling behind on nuclear? When it comes to threats like North Korea and relations with Iran, are sanctions enough?

This video includes references to the Eurasia Group Foundation, now known as the Institute for Global Affairs.