Doomsday Clock Reset?

From The Frog-Eaters, through DefenseNews:

By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Published: 14 Oct 2009 07:26

MOSCOW - Russia will revise its military doctrine to allow a "preventative" nuclear strike against would-be aggressors, a top Kremlin policy-maker was quoted as saying Oct. 14.

Nikolai Patrushev, the secretary of the powerful security council, said the conditions under which Russia could resort to atomic weapons are being reworked in the main strategy document and will be reviewed by President Dmitry Medvedev by the end of the year.

"The conditions have been revised for the use of nuclear weapons to rebuff an aggression with the use of conventional weapons, not only on a massive-scale but on a regional and even local level," Patrushev told the Izvestia newspaper.

"Variants are under considerations for the use of nuclear weapons depending on the situation and potential of a would-be aggressor," he said.

"In a critical situation for national security, a preventative nuclear strike on an aggressor is not ruled out."

You think Armageddon is a thing of the past, & then ... It's back!

Perhaps the war-mongering wing of the Washington Party will interpret this as a warning to Iran from Russia, but that might involve giving a bit of credit to President Othello, so that won't be happening.