Defense
Russian
Army Priorities strengthening of Strategic Nuclear Forces in 2015
19:54 29.12.2014(updated 20:50 29.12.2014)
Chief of the General
Staff, Gen. Valery Gerasimov stated that the strengthening of Russia's nuclear
triad will be the top priority for the Russian Armed Forces next year.
© RIA NOVOSTI. SERGEY PYATAKOV
MOSCOW,
December 29 (Sputnik) — The strengthening of Russia's nuclear triad
will be the top priority for the Russian Armed Forces next year, Chief
of the General Staff, Gen. Valery Gerasimov, said on Monday.
"The readiness
and development of strategic nuclear forces will be the main
priority," Gerasimov said in an interview with the Rossiya-24
television.
Russian President
Vladimir Putin said on December 19 that the Russian strategic nuclear
forces will receive more than 50 ICBMs in 2015. Putin also reaffirmed
plans to modernize the fleet of Russian strategic bombers and
nuclear-powered submarines.
According to the
new Russian military doctrine signed by Putin Friday, Moscow reserves the
right to use nuclear weapons in response to the use
of nuclear weapons or any other types of weapons of mass
destruction against Russia or its allies, as well as in the case
of an attack with conventional weaponry that threatens the very
existence of the state.
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