A real one . speakingsp to state run media, lavrov said the danger was serious. it is real.el it cannot be underestimated. e he added that he did not want to see these risks of nuclear war quote, artificially inflated. it is not see it as an artificially inflated sense of risk, says lars art lavrov. so what they re saying is we will use nuclear weapons n againstuc you and your allies if you don t back off. if, for example, this seemstr existential like you re trying to overthrow our government, it s hardly defensive russia top say that s a real possibility and has been for quite some time. so it s twoome years ago that vladimir putin revised russia s nuclear deterrent policy. now the neww ow policy allows russia to use nuclears weaponsap in response with conventional strike. that means some sort ofat non-nuclear provocation. now in march, russia s former president dmitri medvedev, who sits f on russia s security council, reminded our country of this policy.