According to the head of the Ministry of Defense, "of particular concern is the involvement of pilots of non-nuclear member states of the bloc in exercises to work out issues of the use of tactical nuclear weapons"
MOSCOW, October 20. /tass/. The US military has begun active work on the modernization of tactical nuclear weapons and their storage bases in European countries, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Wednesday.
"The United States of America, with the full support of its NATO allies, has stepped up work on the modernization of tactical nuclear weapons and their storage sites in Europe," Shoigu said at a joint board of the defense ministries of Russia and Belarus.
According to him, "of particular concern is the involvement of pilots of non-nuclear member states of the bloc in exercises to work out the use of tactical nuclear weapons." "We see this as a direct violation of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons," the Russian Defense Minister stressed.
