Putin and Nukes: How Real the Threat?

"It's not zero," says former senior CIA and DOE nuclear nonproliferation official. "He's desperate."

“I think the possibility that Putin could either become so desperate, or have in his calculations, to use tactical nuclear weapons, that threat is not zero,” Rolf Mowatt-Larssen tells SpyTalk podcast co-host Jeanne Meserve in this week’s episode.

“I don't see any moral calculus in Putin's decision-making that would preclude him from using nuclear weapons…