NATO is in talks to develop extra nuclear weapons by bringing them out of storage and into readiness within the face of a rising menace from Russia and China, Alliance chief Jens Stoltenberg stated at the moment.
As Mr. Stoltenberg advised the British newspaper Telegraph, there shall be consultations among the many members of the alliance for transparency about using their nuclear arsenal as a deterrent.
“NATO’s purpose is a world with out nuclear weapons, however…”
“I will not go into operational particulars about what number of nuclear warheads needs to be operational and what number of needs to be saved, however we have to seek the advice of on these points. That is precisely what we’re doing,” he advised the newspaper.
“Transparency helps to speak the instant message that we’re, after all, a nuclear alliance. NATO’s purpose is a world with out nuclear weapons, however so long as nuclear weapons exist, we’ll stay a nuclear alliance, as a result of a world the place Russia, China and North Korea have nuclear weapons and NATO doesn’t is a extra harmful world,” he commented.
“The last word safety assure”
As Stoltenberg stated final week, nuclear weapons are NATO’s “final safety assure” and a method of retaining the peace.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly warned that Moscow may use nuclear weapons to defend itself in excessive circumstances. He accuses the US and its European allies of pushing the world to the brink of nuclear battle by giving Ukraine billions of {dollars} price of weapons, a few of that are getting used in opposition to Russian soil.
NATO, which has taken a much bigger position in coordinating arms provides to Kiev, not often talks about weapons in public, though the US is understood to have deployed nuclear bombs at a number of areas in Europe.
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