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Which nuclear weapons could Vladimir Putin use against Ukraine?

By John Paul Rathbone, Max Seddon, Ben Hall and Henry Foy
New York Times·
6 mins to read

It has been called the biggest nuclear threat to world safety since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis: as Vladimir Putin seeks to salvage his invasion of Ukraine, the Russian president has stepped up his threats to use nuclear weapons.

He said last week he would use "all available means" to keep Russia safe after unilaterally proclaiming four eastern Ukrainian provinces part of Russia. The US had "created a precedent" when it dropped two atomic bombs on Japan in 1945, he

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