The Kremlin said on Monday that NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg\u2019s remarks about talks on deploying more nuclear weapons were an escalation.
\nNATO is in talks to deploy more nuclear weapons, taking them out of storage and placing them on standby, in the face of a growing threat from Russia and China, Stoltenberg said.
\nKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Stoltenberg\u2019s comments appeared to contradict the communique of the Ukraine Conference that said any threat or use of nuclear weapons in the Ukraine context was inadmissible.
\n\u201cThis is nothing but another escalation of tension,\u201d Peskov said of the Stoltenberg remarks.
\nRussia says the United States and its European allies are pushing the world to the brink of nuclear confrontation by giving Ukraine billions of dollars\u2019 worth of weapons, some of which are being used against Russian territory.
\nRussia and the United States are by far the world\u2019s biggest nuclear powers, holding about 88 percent of the world\u2019s nuclear weapons, according to the Federation of American Scientists.
\nThe United States has about 100 non-strategic B61 nuclear weapons deployed in five European countries – Italy, Germany, Turkey, Belgium and the Netherlands, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The US has another 100 such weapons within its borders.
\nRussia has about 1,558 non-strategic nuclear warheads, though arms control experts say it is very difficult to say just how many there are due to secrecy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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