Tobin Harshaw, Columnist

Putin, Nukes and Keeping the West Strong for Ukraine

An interview with Rose Gottemoeller, former deputy secretary general of NATO and top State Department arms-control negotiator.

July 30, 2022 at 12:00 PM UTC

By Tobin Harshaw

Tobin Harshaw is a Bloomberg Opinion senior editor and columnist on national security and military affairs. Previously, he was deputy editor at the op-ed page of the New York Times and the newspaper’s letters editor.

Rose Gottemoeller, NATO expander.
Photographer: Armend Nimani/AFP/Getty Images

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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has raised a whole bunch of important questions, including “What the hell was Putin thinking?”

But among others are: 1) Would Russian President Vladimir Putin actually use a nuclear weapon? and 2) Why has the North Atlantic Treaty Organization been so unified in backing Ukraine?