“Joe Biden says that neither these countries nor the world benefits from hindering progress in reducing nuclear arsenals”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
According to him, neither these countries nor the world benefit from hindering progress in reducing nuclear arsenals.
“Reducing the nuclear threat is important not in spite of the dangers of the modern world, but precisely because of them. These nuclear risks undermine the norms and agreements we have collectively worked to achieve, and run counter to the vital work of today’s Nobel laureates,” Biden said in a statement congratulating the Nobel laureates.
In June, a senior official of the US National Security Council, Pranay Waddy, said that Washington may be forced to expand the deployment of strategic nuclear forces in the coming years to deter threats from adversaries, primarily Russia, China and North Korea.
In connection with Russia’s war against Ukraine, Western countries have repeatedly expressed their fears about Russia’s possible use of tactical nuclear weapons. In Moscow, such a possibility was not directly rejected, while President Vladimir Putin referred to the nuclear doctrine, according to which the use of nuclear weapons is possible in the event of a threat to “the very existence of Russia.” So far, according to him, there was no need to use nuclear weapons.
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On September 7, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), William Burns, commenting on Russia’s threats to use nuclear weapons, said that Putin will continue to periodically threaten direct confrontation with the West, but these threats should not intimidate the West.