NATO is in talks to deploy extra nuclear weapons, taking them out of storage and inserting them on standby, within the face of a rising menace from Russia and China, the top of the alliance mentioned on Monday.
Jens Stoltenberg instructed Britain’s Telegraph newspaper that there have been dwell consultations between members to make use of transparency round its nuclear arsenal as a deterrent.
“I won’t go into operational details about how many nuclear warheads should be operational and which should be stored, but we need to consult on these issues. That’s exactly what we’re doing,” he instructed the paper.
“Transparency helps to communicate the direct message that we, of course, are a nuclear alliance.”
“NATO’s aim is, of course, a world without nuclear weapons, but as long as nuclear weapons exist, we will remain a nuclear alliance, because a world where Russia, China and North Korea have nuclear weapons, and NATO does not, is a more dangerous world.”
Stoltenberg mentioned final week that nuclear weapons had been NATO’s “ultimate security guarantee” and a method to protect peace.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly warned that Moscow may use nuclear weapons to defend itself in excessive circumstances. It accuses the U.S. and its European allies of pushing the world to the brink of nuclear confrontation by giving Ukraine billions of {dollars} value of weapons, a few of that are getting used in opposition to Russian territory.
NATO, which has taken on a better position in coordinating arms provides to Kyiv, hardly ever talks about weapons publicly, though it’s recognized that the U.S. has deployed nuclear bombs to a number of areas in Europe.
Source: www.anews.com.tr