There is a looming fear of an unregulated era of the deployment of nuclear arms that can escalate geopolitical tensions, in the absence of a weapon control treaty.
Speaking at the G20 Foreign ministers' meet, German Foreign Minister Baerbock Thursday called on her Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov to return to the new START nuclear arms control treaty.
Russia’s top defence ministry official said Moscow would continue to notify US with nuclear deployments ‘to prevent false alarms, which is important for strategic stability.’
Defence Acquisition Council likely to take up P-8I procurement, cleared in 2019, in third week this month. Proposed joint production of GE F414-INS6 engine also on agenda.
The key to fighting a war successfully, or even launching it, is a clear objective. That’s an entirely political call. It isn’t emotional or purely military.
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