NATO Plans To Prepare Nuclear Weapons To Face Russian Threats

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky / DOK via Instagram @jensstoltenberg

JAKARTA - NATO is reportedly in talks to deploy more nuclear weapons, remove them from the warehouse and place them on alert, in the face of growing threats from Russia and China.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told the British Telegraph newspaper there was direct consultation between members to use transparency around its nuclear arsenal as a precaution.

"I will not explain the operational details of how many nuclear warheads must be operated and which should be stored, but we need to consult on this issue. That's what we did," he told the newspaper.

Transparency helps communicate a direct message that we, of course, are a nuclear alliance.

NATO's goal, of course, is a world without nuclear weapons, but as long as nuclear weapons still exist, we will remain a nuclear alliance, because the world where Russia, China, and North Korea have nuclear weapons, and NATO doesn't have them, is a world that doesn't have nuclear weapons. a more dangerous world."

Stoltenberg last week said nuclear weapons were NATO's "major security guarantee" and a means to maintain peace.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly warned Moscow could use nuclear weapons to defend itself in extreme circumstances.

Russia accuses the US and its European allies of pushing the world into the brink of a nuclear confrontation by giving Ukraine billions of dollars worth of weapons, some of which are used to attack Russian territory.

NATO, which takes on a bigger role in coordinating arms supplies to Kyiv, rarely talks about weapons openly, although it is known that the US has deployed bomb weapons to several locations in Europe.