Dec 16, 20247 min read
The Nuclear Fallout of the Ukraine War by Subramanyam Sridharan
- Chennai Centre for China Studies
- Jan 1
- 1 min read
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Issue Brief 001/2025
Abstract
The Ukraine War has upended several treaties, conventions, and myths. The biggest of them is in the area of nuclear weapons. Russia, one of the two nuclear superpowers, has not only lowered the bar for its own deterrence posture with revisions to its nuclear weapons policy but has also threatened a non-nuclear weapon state, Ukraine, with nuclear attacks. It has also subjected that country to attacks with dangerous dual-use missiles. This paper not only discusses the Russian ascent of the ‘escalation ladder’ and its consequences but also the fall-out of this approach, especially in the context of Asia which has the largest concentration of regular and rogue nuclear powers.
(Subramanyam Sridharan is a Distinguished Member, C3S. The views expressed are those of the author and do not reflect the views of CAS.)
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