Russia voices alarm at US increasing nukes in military planning
By: Edith M. Lederer,
UNITED NATIONS — A senior Russian official voiced concerns Monday that Washington is increasing the role of nuclear weapons in its military planning as part of a stepped-up campaign by the Trump administration to ensure “U.S. military superiority over the rest of the world,†while he also denied U.S. allegations that Moscow has violated an arms treaty.
Andrei Belousov, deputy director of the Foreign Ministry’s Department of Nonproliferation and Arms Control, told the U.N. General Assembly’s disarmament committee that Russia is “especially concerned†at the Trump administration’s Nuclear Posture Review.
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