NATO is in talks to deploy more nuclear weapons in the face of growing threats from Russia and China. This was stated by the Telegraph, citing an interview given to the British newspaper by the secretary general of the North Atlantic Alliance Jens Stoltenberg, according to whom NATO must show the world its arsenal to send a direct message to its enemies.
The head of the Alliance revealed to the Telegraph that there had been live consultations between NATO members on the withdrawal of missiles from depots and their placing on stand-by. “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: this is exactly what we are doing,” Stoltenberg told the British newspaper.
In the interview, Stoltenberg issued a stark warning about the threat from China, said he expected a Labor government in the UK to be a staunch Nato ally and defended new plans to deliver weapons to Ukraine to challenge Donald Trump . The Alliance’s secretary general stressed that nuclear transparency must be the cornerstone of NATO’s strategy to prepare the North Atlantic bloc for what he described as a more dangerous world. “Transparency helps communicate the direct message that we are obviously a nuclear alliance – said Stoltenberg -. NATO’s goal is a world without nuclear weapons but as long as such weapons exist we will remain a nuclear alliance, because a world in which Russia, China and North Korea have atomic weapons and NATO does not, it is a more dangerous world.”
The Secretary General of the Alliance then warned that China in particular is investing massively in modern weapons, including its atomic arsenal: Beijing would like to possess 1,000 nuclear warheads by 2030. “And this means that in the not too distant future NATO may have to face something it has never faced before, namely two potential nuclear-powered adversaries: China and Russia. Of course this has consequences,” Stoltenberg said, adding that the United States and its European allies are currently modernizing their atomic arsenals.
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