On February 28, deputy director of the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security Matthew Kroenig was cited in an article in the Italian paper La Stampa on the nuclear implications of the ongoing Russian-Ukraine crisis. Kroenig explains how the heightened nuclear alert mobilizes Russia’s mobile nuclear forces from aircraft to submarines.
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