Russia’s foreign ministry worried over US’ plans to deploy new A-bombs in Europe

TASS – Russia’s foreign ministry is seriously worried over the United States’ plans to deploy new nuclear bombs in Europe, the ministry said in a comment on Friday. 

“Of serious concern is the fact that as part of its unprecedented nuclear arsenals modernization program the United States plans to deploy in Europe new lower capacity precision nuclear air bombs,” the ministry said.

“It is a very dangerous project that can considerably lower the nuclear weapons use ‘threshold’ when American nuclear bombs are seen as ‘battlefield weapons.’ We must not forget that Moscow and Washington abandoned such an option twenty-five years ago. It looks like the United States is planning to plunge back into its former irresponsible practice of walking on the brink of nuclear warfare.”

“Washington’s approach to the observance of the provisions of the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons [NPT Treaty] is still alarming,” the ministry said. “The United States along with its non-nuclear NATO allies continue exercises to drill nuclear weapons usage skills as part of the so-called ‘nuclear sharing.’ It is a flagrant violation of Articles I and II of the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.”

“Instead of propaganda statements on the United States’ commitment to further steps in the area of nuclear disarmament, it would be expedient to pull all US non-strategic nuclear weapons back to the national territory [as Russia did twenty-five year ago], to impose a ban on their deployment outside national territories, to dismantle the entire infrastructure that can be used to swiftly re-deploy US nuclear weapons in Europe and, of course, to refrain from any exercises with servicemen of non-nuclear NATO states on drilling the skills of the use of nuclear weapons,” the ministry stressed.

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