Putin lettin' ISIS know nothing is off the table... Putin says he hopes Russia never needs to use nukes against Islamic State Dec. 9, 2015 - "I hope we will never need it," Putin said of using nuclear weapons against terrorists.
From someone who knows whereof he speaks... Crusading Former Pentagon Chief: Nuclear Dangers Are Growing Dec 29, 2015 | by Robert Burns > WASHINGTON -- Late in a life lived unnervingly near the nuclear abyss, William J. Perry is on a mission to warn of a "real and growing danger" of nuclear doom.
Nuclear weapons or the threat of using nukes should always remain on the table. That's why their wasn't an nuclear exchange during the Cold War. It has been the threat of nukes that prevented WW lll. Unlike Obama the community organizer who is completely clueless, Putin understands why WW lll never happened.