In the United States they started talking about the need to modernize nuclear weapons systems
The commander of the US Strategic Command, General Anthony Cotton, said that over the next 10 years Russia and China could catch up with the United States in the number of nuclear weapons.
At a hearing of the US Senate Armed Services Committee, he explained that given the “stunningly rapid” development of nuclear weapons in the Russian Federation and China, by 2035 their total number of warheads could even exceed American stockpiles.
According to the general, China will also achieve parity with the United States in land-based nuclear weapons. According to the commander, the efforts and ambitions of the DPRK and Iran in this area “add a new dimension of complexity to the US strategic calculations.”
In this regard, Cotton noted the need to continue the rapid modernization of American nuclear weapons systems, but clarified that US strategic nuclear forces are “ready to fight today.”
Nuclear weapons – risks in the world
In 2023, during his speech to the Russian parliament on February 21, Vladimir Putin announced his decision to suspend Russia’s participation in the strategic nuclear weapons treaty. This treaty provided for restrictions on the production of nuclear weapons and introduced a mechanism for mutual inspections of the nuclear arsenals of the United States and Russia.
The State Department then responded that the United States does not plan to increase its nuclear arsenal and does not see Russia as capable of doing so. Washington would like to return to the usual regime of mutual inspections of nuclear arsenals.
Amid the risk of global nuclear war, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on the world’s countries to work together to erase the “devices of destruction” – nuclear weapons – from the history books once and for all.
As you know, after the start of a full-scale war, Putin constantly resorts to nuclear threats to the world.
