Russia responds to Trump's offer to 'get of' all nuclear weapons: Let's make a plan
A senior Russian diplomat responded positively to President Donald Trump's remarks regarding his desire to seek total denuclearization, saying Moscow was ready to begin working toward that end.
“Given the increasing role of nuclear weapons in U.S. doctrine-related documents and their gradual transition to a class of weapons that can be used on the battlefield, such statements can be only welcomed,” Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Friday, according to state-run Tass Russian News Agency.
“Russia has explained its stance more than once: further steps toward nuclear disarmament will require creating a number of prerequisites and taking into account many factors that have a direct impact on strategic stability—from the emergence of a missile defense system and the possibility of weapons deployment in space to fundamental changes in the sphere of conventional weapons, the emergence of cyber weapons and many other factors,” Ryabkov said.
As members of the Nuclear Weapons Non-Proliferation Treaty prepared for next year's review, Ryabkov called the direction Trump was taking U.S. nuclear policy “very dangerous” as he “has considerably expanded the number of options permitting the use of nuclear weapons, including for a preventive strike.
The stakes involving weapons of mass destruction have grown particularly high since the White House abandoned the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty in February.
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