First Strike Capability back to the Russian nuclear facilities

Today, the Russian Duma has voted that Russia should have back its First Nuclear Strike Capability, just like in the good-old Cold War days. Since the tear of the Soviet Union, this capability has been removed from the Russian strategists' options, and at least formally and on the paper, the United States were the only country in the world which still had the First Strike Capability, the Russians would have had to stick with the Second Strike (reply) Capability. But it seems that Vladimir Putin's ideas do not agree with an unequal place for Russia compared to the US in the world politics map, so this dangerous law brings back the old times when everybody was afraid of a nuclear war. But still, times have changed. Since many years now, the american public opinion and the International Community are trying to pursuide the United States to give up its First Strike capability, so that the danger of nuclear holocaust would be, in theory at least, eliminated. The United States didn't gave up to this capability (and after my and many other opinions, they shouldn't, because there is always the need for an wathcing eye over the world, may it be nuclear or preferably, NOT), so now the new Russian president's ambitions wanted it back. And it got it back. This, combined with the buying of ex-Ukrainian Tu160 Blackjack strategic nuclear bombers last year, Russia seems to be wanting it's world power back. Only that the economy doesn't sustains it. But this raises one big question: once the Russians will have their old power back, what will they do with it ?
So far, the Russian Duma voted the law in order to "use the nuclear threat as a real option in order to solve a crisis when no other option is available", but that doesn't guarantees the misusage of such power by the Russian part. We'll live and see....whoops, meaning hopefuly we'll LIVE to see.

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