According to its Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, this is a signal to the Alliance’s adversaries.
The NATO is analyzing putting its nuclear arsenal on alert in order to send a warning to its enemies, declared the secretary general of the organization, Jens Stoltenbergin an interview with The Telegraph published this Sunday.
According to the head of the alliance, members of the military group have started talks among themselves about the preparation of the missiles. “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 are doing,” he said.
Stoltenberg He insisted that he decided to share the plans of the NATO because “transparency helps communicate the direct message that, of course, we are a nuclear alliance.”
“The objective of the NATO It is, of course, a world without nuclear weapons, but as long as nuclear weapons exist we will remain a nuclear alliance, because a world in which Russia, China and North Korea They have nuclear weapons, and NATO No, it’s a more dangerous world,” he said.
In this context, Stoltenberg justified the group’s initiative with the supposed growing threat from Moscow and Beijing, calling both countries “two potential nuclear-powered adversaries.” “Of course, this has consequences,” she said.
“The United States is modernizing its gravity bombs for the nuclear warheads they have in Europe and European allies are modernizing the aircraft that will be dedicated to the nuclear mission of the NATO“explained the head of the military group. “Then, of course, there is the United Kingdomwhich is special because it has its own nuclear weapons,” he added.
“We have come too close to the point of no return”
This same week, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, noted that the world has “come too close to the point of no return.” The president highlighted that USA and his allies in the NATO “they destroyed the system of confidence measures and arms control that had been built for decades in the European space.”
“The selfishness and arrogance of state have led to the current very dangerous situation,” he warned. At the same time, he described as “absolute nonsense” the speculation that Russia is planning to attack Europe.
