Nuclear Weapons
Europe's nuclear powers, France and the U.K., "are never going to match Russia in terms of numbers and diversity of the nuclear arsenal," Darya Dolzikova, a nuclear deterrence and security expert at Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), told the Kyiv Independent. "But that's not necessarily how deterrence works. Russia just needs to be unsure whether it can count on the French not using their nuclear weapons in defense of European allies."
