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Comments: If Russia did not possess a nuclear arsenal capable of inflicting unacceptable damage on the US and NATO, they would have attacked Russia long ago, taking advantage of conventional weapons.

 Hence the attempts to neutralize the importance of the nuclear arsenal by developing missile defense systems and developing concepts for a preventive strike on control centers and areas where launch platforms for nuclear charges are located.

Only the fear of annihilation keeps them from direct war, and not diplomacy.

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