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Putin threatens to use nuclear weapons against Isis
Putin threatens to use nuclear weapons against Isis but hopes they ‘will never be needed’
Leader says new cruise missiles can be equipped with nuclear warheads and conventional warheadsVladimir Putin has said he hopes nuclear warheads will not be needed to deal with Isis, after Russia launched cruise missiles from its submarine at the militant group in Syria.
During a meeting in the Kremlin, Russia’s Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu told the President that Kalibr cruise missiles had been fired by the Rostov-on-Don submarine from the Mediterranean Sea for the first time.President Putin said the new cruise missiles could also be equipped with nuclear warheads - but that he hoped they would “never be needed”
.According to Russia Today, he said: “We must [analyse] everything happening on the battlefield, how the weapons operate."The Kalibrs (sea-based cruise missiles) and KH-101 (airborne cruise missile) have proved to be modern and highly effective, and now we know it for sure – precision weapons that can be equipped with both conventional and special warheads, which are nuclear.
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Re: Putin threatens to use nuclear weapons against Isis
Wow. A Carthaginian peace in the extreme.
I just don't see nukes as the appropriate tool to defeat this organization.
Can you imagine the fallout, pun intended, if Russia nukes Muslim lands? They will feed terrorism.
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.