"One cannot admit the domination of a single power in the field of nuclear weapons because otherwise the entire system of international security is thrown off balance and all the disarmament efforts of recent decades lose their meaning". This is the response of the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Duma Leonid Slutzky quoted by Interfax, to the words of US President Donald Trump, who announced the increase in the nuclear arsenal to make the United States the "top of the pack", the most powerful of all the nations that have the atomic bomb.
The resident of the White House, who seems to underestimate the fact that every action and every word in politics must be balanced and reasoned, probably hadn't thought about the reactions that other nations would have in the face of this nuclear arms race. According to him, the US is currently behind its capabilities. Furthermore, Moscow would have violated the arms control treaty by deploying the cruise missile, while the tests carried out by North Korea would have made it “angry.
“If Washington proceeds in its goal of supremacy in the nuclear sphere, the world will return to the cold war, with the risk of a global catastrophe,” warned Slutzky. The tension between the United States and Russia is therefore rising again after the "good omens" predicted at the time of Trump's inauguration.
