Nuclear Weapons Use Threshold Lowering Due To US Actions - Russian Foreign Ministry

The threshold for the use of nuclear weapons is lowering due to the US actions and new strategy, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko said Thursday commenting on earlier statements by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg

SAN MARINO (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 21st March, 2019) The threshold for the use of nuclear weapons is lowering due to the US actions and new strategy, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko said Thursday commenting on earlier statements by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.

Stoltenberg said in February at the Munich Security Conference that Russia's 9M729 (SSC-8) missile systems "lower the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons in a conflict."

"The threshold for the use of nuclear weapons is lowering as a result of the adoption of a new strategy in the United States, which actually erodes the line between a national conflict and a conflict with the use of nuclear weapons," Grushko told reporters.