actually launch some kind of nuclear weapon? >> right. what he means is that we haven't seen any observable change in russia's deployed nuclear weapons, so the mobile icbm missiles have not been flushed from garrison. we haven't seen subs going to sea, no loading of bombers with nuclear weapons, therefore nothing that requires a similar measure on our part. procedures require that if you see the other side mobilizing for war, you mobilize as well, and nothing like that has happened. you know, the trouble with the deterrent theory, however, is that it's based on rational actors on both sides. and in the heat of this war, with so much at stake, what you're worried about is the use of a nuclear weapon by miscalculation, by accident, or by madness, and now we have the additional threat of the use of chemical weapons. so you can see they're laying the groundwork for this by falsely claiming that ukraine has chemical or biological weapons. they do not. there is no truth whatsoever to that. but you're afraid that the