NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg explained his statement about NATO's nuclear weapons: it is not about increasing them, but about modernizing them.
He clarified that the alliance is negotiating a change in the combat readiness of nuclear weapons due to the threat from the Russian Federation and China. But we were talking about the modernization of weapons.
How writes “European Truth”, citing Stoltenberg's words after a meeting with US President Joe Biden at press conferences in Washington, he noted that NATO has had a nuclear deterrent for decades and “this is nothing new”:
“The fact that we are modernizing this nuclear deterrent force is also not new. We are replacing old aircraft, obsolete aircraft, with new fifth-generation aircraft, and the United States is modernizing the weapons that it has deployed. So this is nothing new.”
Stoltenberg noted that the modernization of NATO's nuclear deterrent has been ongoing for some time and stressed that NATO has no plans to increase the number of nuclear weapons, repeating again:
“We are transparent about this, it has been reported for many years. This is a modernization of nuclear deterrence that we have had for many years. This is nothing new, and we have been talking about this for a long time.”
NATO spokeswoman Farah Dakhlallah also said there had been no significant changes in the alliance's nuclear policy and it was committed to maintaining a “safe, secure and effective” nuclear deterrent.
The other day, Stoltenberg said that NATO was holding consultations regarding changes in the combat readiness of missiles with nuclear warheads. The NATO Secretary General pointed out that “a world in which the Russian Federation, China and the DPRK have nuclear weapons, but NATO does not, is more dangerous.”
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