Posted By: Polina Tikhonova
Posted date: September 22, 2015 03:12:57 PM In: Politics, Russia
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U.S. To Station Nuclear
Weapons In Germany
Against Russia [REPORT]
With plans to go to war with Russia, the U.S. will station
new atomic weapons and 20 new nuclear bombs in
Germany , according to Tuesday reports from Germany’s
ZDF public television network.
Each of the 20 new American nuclear bombs are four
times the destructive power of the one that was used on
Hiroshima in 1945, according to the article.
“With the new bombs the boundaries blur between
tactical and strategic nuclear weapons,” Hans Kristensen,
the Director of the Nuclear Information Project at the
Federation of American Scientists, told ZDF.
In June, Russian Foreign Ministry warned the U.S.
against stationing its nuclear weapons in Europe to avoid
“dangerous consequences.”
These “new attack options against Russia” present “a
conscious provocation of our Russian neighbors,”
according to Willy Wimmer, a former Parliamentary
State Secretary in Defense Ministry of German’s
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s own conservative party.
Back in March 2010, the Bundestag ruled by a large
majority, expressing the will of most Germans, that the
government should press for the withdrawal of U.S.
nuclear weapons from Germany.
“But instead there will be these new bombs,” according to
German Economic News, referring to 20 new nuclear
bombs to be stationed in Germany.
The news have already sparked a great deal of outrage in
Russia, with a spokeswoman of Russian Foreign Minister,
Maria Zakharova, saying that “This is an infringement of
Articles 1 and 2 of the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of
Nuclear Weapons.”
The treaty Zakharova is referring to is something Russia
has repeatedly been accused of violating. It’s the treaty
that guarantees non-nuclear states that nuclear powers
will not take advantage of their nuclear status to take
over the world.
Putin: We will aim our forces at territories where threat
comes
Russian President Vladimir Putin responded to NATO’s
expansion in Eastern Europe by saying flat out that
Russia “will be forced to aim our armed forces … at those
territories from where the threat comes.”
“It is NATO that is moving towards our border and we
aren’t moving anywhere,” Putin then added, speaking to
journalists in June.
How does Washington explain the policy to get closer to
Russian borders with its weapons, hardware, military
bases and nuclear bombs?
Over recent months, there have been numerous reports
by leading U.S. media outlets – often citing U.S. military
sources and officials of the U.S. administration – that the
U.S. is getting closer to Russian borders only because it’s
worried Russia might violate the Intermediate-Range
Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) signed in 1987.
However, many of such sources cannot certainly say
whether there have been indications of Russia violating
the INF treaty, so the U.S. implements ways to put
pressure on Moscow and convince it in complying with
the treaty.
Washington has repeatedly expressed its concerns over
Russia’s P-500 missiles for Iskander-M , which have the
range of 500 km (300 miles), while the treaty bans
missiles with intermediate ranges between 500 - 5,500
km (300 - 3,400 miles).
However, it
must be noted
that the U.S.
itself has been
developing
target-missiles
for testing of
anti-ballistic
missile
systems since
the 1990s.
Basically, such
target-missiles
are intermediate-range missiles without the warheads.
The U.S. has also been stationing in Europe its Standard
SM-3 launching systems, which are capable of launching
Tomahawk cruise missiles.
Russian FM warned the U.S. of “dangerous consequences”
In June, Russian Foreign Ministry warned the U.S. that
deployment of new military weaponry anywhere near
Russian borders would “entail dangerous consequences,”
with some experts interpreting it as a ‘threat’.
“The United States is inciting tensions and carefully
nurturing their European allies' anti-Russian phobias in
order to use the current difficult situation for further
expanding its military presence and influence in
Europe,” the Russian Foreign Ministry stated on its
official website.
“We hope that reason will prevail and it will be possible
to save the situation in Europe from sliding toward a
military standoff which could entail dangerous
consequences,” the Russian Foreign Ministry warned.
Russia’s nuclear arsenal currently includes military
stockpile of nearly 4,500 nuclear warheads with about
1,800 strategic warheads deployed on missiles and at
bomber bases. Another 700 strategic warheads are in
reserves with roughly 2,700 non-strategic warheads. On
top of that, about 3,500 of retired warheads await
dismantlement.
Only Russia can destroy the U.S.
Earlier this year, the U.K. supported U.S. foreign policy
aimed against Russia.
The Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said Britain
could once again host U.S. nuclear missiles on its
territory amid escalating tensions with Russia.
Hammond said the government ‘would look at the case’
for cruise missiles to be stationed in the U.K. and added
that the West needed to send ‘clear signals’ to Putin amid
‘worrying signs’ of increased military activity by Russian
forces.
In June, Putin denounced U.S. “scaremongering,” saying
that the U.S. is a global empire of military bases, and
adding that Russia has “virtually no bases abroad.”
The ones owned by Russia are outdated Soviet-era relics.
“I think that only an insane person and only in a dream
can imagine that Russia would suddenly attack NATO,”
Putin told journalists.
ValueWalk reported earlier this month that Russia is the
only country in the world capable of destroying the U.S. ,
according to U.S. Ambassador Linton Brooks.
Russia’s actions in Syria earlier this month have
significantly escalated tensions between the Kremlin and
Washington. It must be noted that even before Russia’s
threatening actions in Syria in September, the relations
between the U.S. and Russia had already been at its
worst since the end of the Cold War.
This month, Russia has been boosting its military
presence in Syria, supporting the regime of Syrian
President Bashar al-Assad, while the U.S. wants his
government removed from power.
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