Vladimir Putin's statement that Moscow could widen its rules for nuclear weapon use may have redrawn the red line in his atomic intimidation, but is also likely a bluff, experts have told Newsweek.
For a glimpse of such effects, recall that an American test in 1954 of a high-yield nuclear weapon on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands vaporized three islands, contaminated 15 more, and caused the ...