Under what conditions can the Russian Federation use nuclear weapons? Podkast with Harvard Researcher

“If Russia was not a nuclear state and still decided on a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, I think, the response of Western partners would be different. It is likely that we would even see the input of troops. At least they would have been response to the Ukrainian request to close the sky, and at the beginning of the war it was a matter of war. Western partners and forces did not deliberately wanted to enter a direct clash directly, even a conventional with another nuclear state, with the Russian Federation, to a great extent, because they were afraid of escalation to a nuclear level. ”

How did Russia’s use of nuclear rhetoric affect the West’s position in Ukraine and nuclear restraint?

In the new episode of Podcast (not) a safe country, his constant presenter Alina Frolova speaks with Mariana Budzhin, a researcher of Harvard University nuclear policy. Talk about the probable scenarios of nuclear weapons, the possible response of the West to the Kremlin’s nuclear blackmail, whether the conditions of the Budapest Memorandum were fulfilled and the importance of nuclear restraint, the ability of Ukraine to create its own nuclear weapons and whether the state has enough weapons to be.