TOWARD AN ATOMIC WAR! Stoltenberg: “NATO aiming to put Nuclear Weapons on Alert” Russia Ready to Answer
In the cover image, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and American soldiers control a nuclear warhead during an exercise at Aviano Air Base (Italy)
by Carlo Domenico Cristofori
NATO member states have started consultations on the need to put nuclear weapons on alert, the alliance’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told The Daily Telegraph.
This military escalation will certainly also affect Italy.
Aviano AB, in the north-eastern region of Friuli-Venezia-Giulia, is one of the most important and strategic NATO and US Air Force bases on the Italian territory because it is one of the two that hosts the atomic warheads, as we saw in a previous investigation.
For this reason it is one of the sensitive objectives in a possible conflict between the Atlantic Alliance and Russia.
On October 2022, only a few days before the beginning of the big nuclear drills scheduled by NATO in Europe (Steadfast Noon), more than 200 U.S. Marines were deployed to Aviano for approximately two months to integrate and train with the 510th Fighter Squadron as part of a dynamic force employment .
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NATO holds consultations on putting nuclear weapons on alert
“I won’t go into operational details about how many nuclear warheads should be operational and which should be stored, but we need to consult on these issues. That’s exactly what we’re doing,” he said. The NATO chief added that transparency on the issue “helps to communicate the direct message” that NATO is a “nuclear alliance.”
“NATO’s aim is, of course, a world without nuclear weapons, but as long as nuclear weapons exist, we will remain a nuclear alliance, because a world where Russia, China and North Korea have nuclear weapons, and NATO does not, is a more dangerous world,” Stoltenberg emphasized.
He said that he was particularly concerned about China, which is investing heavily in advanced weapons and will increase the number of its nuclear warheads to 1,000 by 2030.
“And that means that in a not-very-distant future NATO may face something that it has never faced before, and that is two nuclear-powered potential adversaries – China and Russia. Of course, this has consequences,” the NATO chief opined.
Modernizing nuclear arsenals
Stoltenberg added that the US and its European allies are currently modernizing their nuclear arsenals.
“The US is modernizing their gravity bombs for the nuclear warheads they have in Europe and European allies are modernizing the planes which are going to be dedicated to NATO’s nuclear mission,” he said.
According to the newspaper, the UK has deployed about 40 of its 225 nuclear warheads, while the US has 1,700 warheads (and another 3,700 in reserve). At the same time, the newspaper emphasized that France “does not make its atomic arsenal avaliable to the alliance because of a long-held decision to maintain independence over its own deterrence.”
Commenting on the situation in Ukraine, Stoltenberg urged Western countries to continue supporting Kiev. “I strongly believe that if [Russian President Vladimir] Putin prevails in Ukraine, we will become more vulnerable, and then we will need to invest even more in our defense,” he pointed out.
Russian Military Expert Suggests Kremlin Plans Nuclear Strikes on US Ships
Russian military expert Igor Korotchenko recently suggested on state-owned TV that the Kremlin plans to attack U.S. ships with nuclear weapons.
«Late last month, U.S. officials revealed to the Associated Press that President Joe Biden has since allowed Ukraine to use American-made weapons to fight against Russia’s attacks or planned attacks in the Kharkiv region. The weapons are only allowed to be used to defend Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, and Kyiv is not to use American-provided long-range missiles» Newsweek has reported.
“In my opinion, there is only one adequate, fast and effective response to the increased strikes against the territory of the Russian Federation with American long-range weapons, since Biden and [U.S. national security adviser Jake] Sullivan have given the green light and Ukraine’s Armed Forces will carry it out: total destruction of all electrical generation in Ukraine,” Korotchenko recently said on state-owned TV, according to an English-translated clip posted to YouTube on Saturday by watchdog group Russian Media Monitor.
Russian Media Monitor was created by journalist Julia Davis “in an effort to combat Russian propaganda.”
Korotchenko then mentioned the Russian warships that conducted drills in the Atlantic Ocean on their way to Cuba, as reported by the Russian Defense Ministry. The ministry said that a Russian navy ship and Moscow’s Kazan nuclear-powered submarine conducted the exercise to simulate a missile strike on a fleet of enemy ships.
The Russian warships are scheduled to be in Havana from Wednesday until this upcoming Monday (today, June, 17 – ed), according to the Cuban Foreign Ministry. The Cuban ministry said that none of the warships are carrying nuclear weapons and said that the warships do “not represent a threat to the region.” Cuban officials, meanwhile, have called their relations with Russia “historically friendly,” according to the AP.
“Now, about the arrival of our ships and submarines to Cuba, it was officially stated that the Kazan is the only sub that came there, as part of a naval group of warships of the Northern Fleet,”
Korotchenko said. “In reality, we can guess that Kazan wasn’t the only one, but there were a few Russian multipurpose nuclear subs in different parts of the Atlantic Ocean, carrying out their tasks.”
He continued: “These tasks are clear: countering American aircraft carrier strike groups. Of course, if a strike is carried out, as it was stated, several hundred kilometers away, against an American aircraft carrier strike group, this strike would be done with special ordnance for maximum effectiveness, speed and reliability.”
State TV host Evgeny Popov chimed in: “Special ordnance means nuclear weapons.” To which, Korotchenko confirmed, “Yes, exactly, a nuclear warhead on a Tsirkon [missile].”
The host of the show, Olga Skabeyeva, added: “Is this the new terminology so we don’t scare people?…Friends, this is not a nuclear war, but a special war!”
“We again remind you: there is an occupied part of Cuba. This territory is called Guantanamo,” Popov said. “They excuse it by saying they’ve rented it for $1 from the Cuban government at one point. We know, these are just fairy tales of the Vienna Woods. This is a real occupation of a sovereign nation! This territory is decent, with good military infrastructure that could be of good use to the Russian Federation for its base or at least logistics facilities.”
Did the visit of the Russian ships to Havana also serve to unload powerful missiles to place in the Cuban bases?
Putin: “With the atomic bomb, Russia would immediately win the war in Ukraine”
The atomic bomb would allow Russia to win the war in Ukraine “faster”, “
but the health of Russian soldiers is more important”. Russian President Vladimir Putin said this in recent days while answering a question during a plenary session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
“Is it possible to achieve the objectives before us faster? It is, but with losses that would be directly proportionate. And being aware of my responsibility, I am still working on the premise of our General Staff and our Ministry of Defense “Speed is important, but caring about the life and health of our children fighting on the front is much more important,” Putin said.
“When we see what the Russian character is, what the character of a Russian citizen is, we understand it and we count on this; we do not need nuclear weapons for final victory.”
Putin also said that he does not believe that there are reasons for the use of nuclear weapons, as foreseen by the nuclear doctrine, but he does not exclude that changes could be introduced to the document.
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