Russia-Nato Conflict: Moscow’s New Nuclear-Capable Missile Stokes Fear as Arms Treaty Falls Apart
By Cristina Maza On 1/25/19 at 2:04 PM
Russia’s new nuclear-capable missile not only violates the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty (INF) that the country signed with the United States but makes it easier for nuclear war to break out, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg warned on Thursday.
“We do what we can to preserve the INF treaty. This treaty has banned a whole category of weapons, intermediate range weapons. Russia is in violation of that treaty, they have developed a new category of weapons that are mobile and hard to detect, and have a short warning time, so they are reducing the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons,†Stoltenberg told a reporter from CNBC on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “So we call on Russia to come back into the definable, transparent compliance with that treaty, because this is really important for all of us.â€
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