The representative of the State Department explained the need for the preservation of the United States of Nuclear Weapons. He told about this POLITICO.
“We preserve nuclear weapons not for the sake of wars and victories. It is necessary for the preservation of peace and stability in the world, where others can try to apply force or at least threaten it to use, especially threaten the application of a nuclear strike to undermine the values, Security and sovereignty of the United States and their allies and partners, “he noted.
January 3 The leaders of the countries of the so-called nuclear “five” – Russia, China, the United States, the United Kingdom and France – opposed the arms race and called on to do everything possible to prevent a nuclear war in the future. “We believe that the further spread of such weapons must be prevented … In the nuclear war there can be no winners, and it should never be untied,” says in a joint statement prepared on the initiative of Moscow.
Later, the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Maria Zakharov said that Moscow expects to reduce the level of international tension due to this statement.