condemned<\/a> the US move. Sergei Ryabkov, Deputy Foreign Minister, said: \u201cThe US is actually lowering the nuclear threshold and conceding the possibility of waging a limited nuclear war and winning this war\u2026 this is extremely alarming.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nWhat is doubly perplexing is the wider context in which the Trump administration has abnegated arms controls treaties. Last year, the administration walked away from the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty, governing the use of short-range, or tactical, nuclear missiles. So far, Washington has shown every indication that it has no intention to extend the New START accord with Russia governing long-range strategic weapons, which is due to expire next year.<\/span><\/p>\nThe deployment of low-yield nuclear weapons as part of the strategic arsenal is bound to destabilize the global strategic balance. Moscow has repeatedly warned that Washington is trying to incite a new arms race. It points to the undoing of arms controls treaties and the US weaponization of outer-space as evidence of such an agenda of provoking global insecurity.<\/span><\/p>\nIt is tempting to speculate that the US is reacting to Russia\u2019s development of hypersonic non-nuclear weapons which are said to be able to evade any anti-missile defense system. Moscow maintains that its arsenal is predicated on a doctrine of self-defense and not a first-strike objective. In any case, it seems that the US having realized that it has lost out to Russia in development of hypersonic non-nuclear weapons has taken the tack of expanding its nuclear options. That move overturns decades of declared non-proliferation commitments.<\/span><\/p>\nIt should also be noted that this week the Kremlin disclosed<\/a> that an urgent call issued by Russian President Vladimir Putin for the five permanent members of the UN Security Council to convene a summit in order to address international peace has so far been ignored by Washington. Last month, at a Holocaust memorial in Israel, Putin repeated a proposal for the UN founding powers \u2013 the US, Britain, France, Russia and China \u2013 to consolidate efforts for strengthening global security, non-proliferation and arms controls. This week, the Kremlin said this call has not received any response from the US (or the UK) to participate in such a forum.<\/span><\/p>\nFurthermore, next month sees one of the biggest-ever NATO war maneuvers in Europe, including a massive trans-Atlantic deployment of US forces. Russia\u2019s Ministry of Defense has deprecated the huge mobilization as being akin to a rehearsal for an invasion of Russia.<\/span><\/p>\nPresident Donald Trump has previously stated his abhorrence of nuclear war and has called for negotiation of a new comprehensive arms control treaty between the US, Russia and China.<\/span><\/p>\nAll empirical evidence shows that American rhetoric is completely and contemptibly detached from the reality of its threatening practices. The world is moving towards more insecurity and risk of catastrophic war. And the fault of that damnable dynamic lies entirely with Washington.<\/span><\/p>\nsource:https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2020\/02\/07\/us-deploys-mini-nukes-in-deplorable-threat-to-world-peace\/<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"February 7, 2020 The Pentagon confirmed this week that it has, for the first time, armed some of its submarines with long-range nuclear missiles which have a lower destructive power … <\/p>\n