Moscow strikes back at US ‘anti-Russian’ threats about nuclear DOOMSDAY device
The Russian Foreign Ministry slammed US defence chiefs for increasing the chances of war after a report in the latest Nuclear Posture Review (NPR). In a statement today the ministry said the US accusations “have nothing to do with reality,” and expressed its “deep disappointment” with the report. Russian chiefs accused America of using anti-Russian rhetoric to justify “large-scale nuclear weapons buildup”.
The NPR blamed Russia for developing a “nuclear drone torpedo”, sparking fears of war between the two military superpowers.
But Russian chiefs today said that the country would only use nuclear weapons in cases of aggression involving the use of weapons of mass destruction, or where the existence of the nation is at stake.
They attacked the trigger-happy US for treating “almost any use of military force as a reason for carrying out a nuclear strike against those deemed aggressors.” Russia warned that the US’s development of low-power nuclear munitions, together with its doctrine stating the right to a pre-emptive strike, would drastically increase the risk of nuclear annihilation even in “low-intensity conflicts.”
The country’s Foreign Ministry dismissed Washington’s accusations as “a dishonest attempt to shift its own culpability for the degradation of international and regional security onto others.”
And Moscow also expressed its anger over the fact that the US maintains and upgrades its tactical nuclear weapons in Europe, “in the immediate vicinity of the Russian borders.” Recently fears grew of a Russian-US military standoff after lethal surface-to-air missiles were placed on the disputed Ukrainian border. While top military brass warned that Russia is simulating all-out war with NATO in secret military drills.
Source : Daily Star