Putin says Russia may use nuclear first strike strategy
Days after warning of the “increasing” threat of nuclear war, Russian President Vladimir Putin floated the possibility of changing its military doctrine to not use nuclear weapons first. “They (the US) have it in their strategy, in the documents it is spelled out — a preventive blow. We don’t. We, on the other hand, have formulated a retaliatory strike in our strategy,” Putin said at a news conference in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Putin said that, even …