dangle

6月28日のThe Japan Times Onlineの記事 'Japan to host G7 summit in Hiroshima next May' に覚えたい単語が使われていました。記事の一部を引用します。
Next year's summit is intended to send a message of peace from Hiroshima, one of the two nuclear-bombed cities in Japan during World War II, as Russia has dangled the threat of nuclear weapons since it invaded Ukraine in late February.

"dangle" の意味として、「ぶら下げる」は知っていますが、ここではその意味ではないですね。辞書を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: with object Offer (an enticing incentive) to someone.: ‘two rich commissions that had been dangling so sweetly in front of me’
・Collins Dictionary: If you say that someone is dangling something attractive before you, you mean they are offering it to you in order to try to influence you in some way.: They've dangled rich rewards before me.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: to offer someone something that they want in order to persuade that person to do something: I've tried dangling all kinds of offers in front of him to get him to work harder at school, but nothing works.

辞書では魅力的なものを目の前にぶら下げて誘惑する例ばかりでしたが、ロシアはニンジンではなく、核兵器使用をちらつかせているので、本当に恐ろしい、酷い話です。