Are Putin & Co. bluffing with this implied nuclear threat?
More.
What Pat gets wrong is that Putin hasn't threatened to use "tactical atomic weapons". Putin's threats are deliberately ambiguous and not specific. But they are linked to the new tests and deployment of hypersonic delivery systems, which can carry nuclear or conventional warheads. Putin thinks his hypersonic missile is "the most powerful handgun in the world".
Putin is Dirty Harry.
But what's in the gun? 180gr jacketed hollow points or 320gr flat-nose?
