Battle Lines: How Putin, Xi and Trump sparked a new nuclear arms race

NATO is having to think quite long and hard about how it reintroduces a degree of flexibility into its own nuclear thinking, because currently there's a bit of a gap in the Allied escalation ladder. We have, you, know, pretty credible conventional options and Pretty credible strategic options, but. That capacity to sort of operate in between those two rungs of the escalation ladder is somewhat atrophied since the Cold War."