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MOSCOW (Sputnik) – NATO countries are discussing the possibility of deploying more nuclear warheads and putting them in combat readiness as a deterrent factor, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said.
“I wonât go into operational details about how many nuclear warheads should be operational and which should be stored, but we need to consult on these issues. Thatâs exactly what weâre doing,” Stoltenberg told The Telegraph newspaper on Sunday.
Stoltenberg added that China is actively investing in its nuclear arsenal, which will grow to 1,000 warheads by the early 2030s.
“And that means that in a not-very-distant future NATO may face something that it has never faced before, and that is two nuclear-powered potential adversaries â China and Russia. Of course, this has consequences,” he said.
At the same time, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said on Monday that nine countries – the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan, North Korea and Israel – continue to modernize their nuclear arsenals, with the number of nuclear warheads on high operational alert increasing…
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