Arms Control Secretary of State Bonnie Jenkins said Washington would only consider using nuclear weapons in extreme cases to protect vital interests. He announced it at the NPT conference, reports DEA News”.
“The United States will only consider using nuclear weapons in extreme circumstances to protect the vital interests of the United States or our allies and partners,” he said.
According to him, the United States will not use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear countries that are members of the NPT.
Jill Hruby, head of the US Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (ANSA), said the US is not expanding its nuclear arsenal as part of modernization.
Earlier, Andrey Belousov, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Office in Geneva, spoke at the First Committee of the Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). declarationHe said Russia’s possession of nuclear weapons “remains the only response to certain external threats” so far.
Source: Gazeta
