We may not be going into WW3 with Russia over Syria after all.

[A Theist]

As I already mentioned...I'm not worried about Red Scare shit.  The world has changed since then.  The most credible threat of nukes is not from the Russian state, but from actors who may have gotten their hands on a nuke, maybe from the russian state (but honestly more likely to be a low yield homebrew POS dirty bomb)..who knows, and seek to detonate it in the middle of a city after having carted it there with their own two mitts.

That's the threat to watch, down on the ground, in city streets...not in the sky, or in the past.

That's certainly a scenario to think about. That maybe a radicalized lone wolf who has the material and knowledge to set off a dirty bomb in a major city. I really don't think Russia wants a nuclear confrontation with the U.S. But, I still think that North Korea is our major concern. Although NOKO may not have the delivery system just yet to hit the U.S. mainland they do have the capability to hit our troops stationed in SOKO, not to mention the 10+ million people living in Seoul.