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Ok I been studying up on Russia for various TLs I'm working on at the moment. I came across the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis. It seems that Russia was on the verge of civil war but the army supported Yeltsin and things calmed down. However what would happen if the army split with some supporting Yeltsin and others supporting Rutskoy.

What would a civil war in a nuclear armed state look like? Would they really use nuclear weapons or would the rest of the world led by the US be able to force the Russians hand over their nukes to keep them from being used? What kind of fall out would this civil war lead to?
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