repeating his threat to use nuclear weapons. But what really ended efforts to bring about peace - which had continued since the …

goes that Moscow is prepared to use nuclear weapons at an early stage in a conflict in order to “deescalate” and terminate … “strategic deterrence”, Russia has developed a holistic deterrence strategy in which nuclear weapons remain an important element … a broad range of non-military and conventional means. Given Russia’s dwindling arsenal of conventional precision weapons …

In post-revolution Libya, the proliferation and trafficking of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) became pervasive due …