Moscow Denies Pentagon Claims of ‘Stolen’ Russian Nuclear Weapons
November 3rd, 2008Mmm hmm.
Via: RIA Novosti:
Russia’s Foreign Ministry denied on Friday claims by the U.S. defense secretary that large amounts of Russian nuclear weapons had been stolen or misplaced.
Speaking in Washington on Tuesday at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Robert Gates expressed concern that some Russian nuclear weapons from the former Soviet arsenal may not be fully accounted for.
“I have fairly high confidence that no strategic or modern tactical nuclear weapons have leaked beyond Russian borders,” Gates said.
“What worries me are the tens of thousands of old nuclear mines, nuclear artillery shells and so on, because the reality is the Russians themselves probably don’t have any idea how many of those they have or, potentially, where they are,” he added.
“Such allegations are entirely groundless,” the ministry’s press and information department said in a statement.
“Despite all the difficulties that our country faced in the early 1990s, Russia maintained very high standards of ensuring the safety and physical protection of its nuclear arsenals,” the statement said.
“In this respect, we would like to reiterate that in a joint statement on nuclear security signed by the Russian and U.S. leaders in Bratislava in 2005 both sides acknowledged that the protection of nuclear facilities in both countries meets modern norms and requirements,” it said.
Anybody see Jericho – sadly cancelled by the idiots at CBS? Anybody else worry about the ultimate false flag attack in the US?
Sorry, but this kind of “allegation” always spooks the hell out of me.
The US and Russia never made a worse decision for global stability than to “end” the Cold War without a stronger NWO. The US subsequently tried hard to create a cyberwarfare-based Cold War II with China, but after multiple attempts it never got past square one. And the US vs. Al Qaeda illusion hasn’t lasted. So now we’re back to the old ways. Putin is now fully villainized in the western MSM, and we’re finally in a place where the US can dig up lines from elementary school Social Studies classes (“some Russian nuclear weapons from the former Soviet arsenal may not be fully accounted for”) and turning them into the foundations of a new global bilateral standoff. Bravo.