Russian President Putin signs a new doctrine that lowers the threshold for using nuclear weapons (apnews.com)

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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday signed a revised nuclear doctrine declaring that a conventional attack on Russia by any nation that is supported by a nuclear power will be considered a joint attack on his country.

The signing of the doctrine, which says that any massive aerial attack on Russia could trigger a nuclear response, reflects Putin’s readiness to threaten use of the country’s nuclear arsenal to force the West to back down as Moscow presses a slow-moving offensive in Ukraine.

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[-] Doom@ttrpg.network 7 points 11 hours ago

The US absolutely has a missile warning system

[-] JustZ@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Yes thank you. What I said was that our warning system is not our trigger. Our triggers have people pulling them. I went back and hyphenated it properly for you.

Unlike Russian nuclear policy in this regard, known a Dead Hand aka Permitr, where the warning system is also the trigger.