In a rare reference to the West’s nuclear arsenal, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg today spoke of the Alliance’s efforts to adapt its capabilities to current security threats, taking into account Russia’s recent nuclear readiness exercises and rhetoric of Moscow. Speaking to reporters ahead of a two-day meeting of NATO defense ministers in Brussels, during which the Alliance’s Nuclear Planning Group will meet, Jens Stoltenberg called NATO’s nuclear arsenal “a supreme security guarantee” and a means of preserving peace. Although it is widely known that the US has deployed nuclear bombs at various locations in Europe, NATO officials rarely refer to these weapons publicly. Referring to what he called the “current adjustment” of NATO’s nuclear arsenal, Stoltenberg noted that the Netherlands declared in June that its first F-35 fighter jets are ready to carry nuclear weapons and that the US is modernizing […]
Source: News Beast
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