The United States called the condition of abandoning cruise missiles with nuclear charges

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WASHINGTON, Feb 22 - RIA Novosti, Tatyana Kalmykova. The US will abandon the plans to deploy sea-based cruise missiles in nuclear facilities, as outlined in the new doctrine, if Russia complies with the treaty on the elimination of intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles (the INF Treaty), Robert Soufer, Deputy Minister of Defense for Nuclear and Missile Defense Policy, .

"We are saying in the doctrine that if Russia starts to comply with the INF Treaty again, starts negotiations on reductions of tactical nuclear weapons, if they change their aggressive geopolitical behavior in the international arena, then we can talk about a sea-based cruise missile, we will not need to deploy it ", He said, speaking at a summit on nuclear deterrence in Washington.

Soufer also expressed concern that Russia, he claims, is building up stocks of non-strategic nuclear weapons. "We looked at the Russian strategy, the Russian doctrine, the doctrines ... and we need to do something to answer this, we had no choice," he said, referring to the new nuclear doctrine.

New US Nuclear Doctrine

Earlier, the Pentagon promulgated the US nuclear doctrine, according to which Washington will focus on the development of nuclear warheads of low power. In addition, the United States will continue to modernize its nuclear forces and develop elements of the "nuclear triad" (intercontinental missiles, strategic submarines and bombers). According to the Pentagon, the US does not intend to reduce the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons, and the main goal remains to contain both nuclear and non-nuclear "strategic attacks."

The Russian Foreign Ministry earlier said that the US is misleading the world community, arguing that the new nuclear doctrine of the country will not lower the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons. On the contrary, the use of "low-power" nuclear warheads "will significantly reduce the" threshold conditions, "which can lead to" the emergence of a nuclear missile war even during low-intensity conflicts. "Moscow was especially concerned about the US intention to create a" low-power "ammunition for a cruise missile sea ​​basing in nuclear equipment and a "light" warhead for the Trident II submarine ballistic missile.

INF Treaty

The INF Treaty was signed on December 8, 1987 during the visit of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to Washington. Under the reduction was a whole class of missile weapons with a range of damage from 500 to 1,000 and from 1,000 to 5,500 kilometers, including those provoked in 1962 by the Caribbean crisis of the R-12 and R-14 missiles in Cuba.

In Moscow, allegations that Russia refuses further reductions in nuclear weapons have been called "outright fraud." Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stressed that Russia wants to maintain the treaty on the elimination of medium and short-range missiles and is ready to negotiate with Washington on this issue.

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