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Financial Times: US allies urged Washington to preserve the possibility of a preemptive nuclear strike

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MOSCOW, October 30/ Sputnik Radio. US allies in Europe and the Pacific are trying to influence the White House and are calling on American leader Joe Biden not to change Washington's current nuclear policy, the Financial Times newspaper reports .

The publication writes that the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Australia and Japan do not want the United States to declare a transition to the principle of non-use of nuclear weapons first.

These countries fear that this step on the part of Washington "could undermine the deterrence strategy aimed at Moscow and Beijing, and ... give them courage."

As the FT notes, American nuclear policy has remained "deliberately vague" since the Cold War.

Theoretically, the United States can still launch a preemptive nuclear strike, so its allies feel protected under the "nuclear umbrella".

The Biden administration is currently studying the relevance of Washington's approach to the use of nuclear weapons.

The Financial Times expects the analysis to be completed by the end of this year.

Earlier, Sputnik radio told why the head of the American General Staff, Mark Milli, remembered about the USSR, commenting on China's test of a hypersonic missile.

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