Under the public radar, NATO is modernising its tactical nuclear arsenal.
![The West is currently too preoccupied with Russia's new nuclear militarism to notice the way that its own military alliance functions as an agent of regional insecurity, writes Klinke [Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/2014122711241784734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)

Ian Klinke is a researcher at the University of Oxford.
Under the public radar, NATO is modernising its tactical nuclear arsenal.
![The West is currently too preoccupied with Russia's new nuclear militarism to notice the way that its own military alliance functions as an agent of regional insecurity, writes Klinke [Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/2014122711241784734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
NATO backing the Ukrainian military is about as sensible as Russia’s support for paramilitary forces
![Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko gave NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen the Order of Liberty, Ukraine's highest award for foreign nationals [AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/201492155251809734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)