The US is exploring deployment of nuclear weapons in additional NATO countries, potentially allowing dual-capable aircraft in Baltic and Eastern European states, amid Russia\u2019s warnings about NATO activity near its borders.<\/p>\n
US\u00a0authorities are considering the possibility of\u00a0deploying nuclear weapons in\u00a0additional European NATO countries. This would allow the deployment of\u00a0dual-capable aircraft capable of\u00a0delivering nuclear strikes, the Financial Times reported, citing its own sources.<\/p>\n
According to\u00a0the publication, American officials are discussing the deployment of\u00a0nuclear weapons not only in\u00a0six European countries where nuclear-capable bombers are already stationed, but also in\u00a0other European states. This step could potentially allow a\u00a0greater number of\u00a0countries to\u00a0host American dual-capable aircraft.<\/p>\n
Sources indicate that Baltic states and countries on\u00a0NATO\u2019s eastern flank, including Poland, have shown interest in\u00a0hosting such aircraft. The highest interest comes from states closest to\u00a0Russian borders.<\/p>\n
In\u00a0recent years, Moscow has repeatedly pointed to\u00a0NATO\u2019s unprecedented activity along its western borders. NATO expands its initiatives, describing them as\u00a0\u00abdeterring Russian aggression.” The Kremlin emphasized that Russia does not threaten anyone, but cannot ignore alliance actions that could pose a\u00a0threat to\u00a0its interests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US is exploring deployment of nuclear weapons in additional NATO countries, potentially allowing dual-capable aircraft in Baltic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[232,239,202,237,236,238,7,240,197,20,235],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-baltic-states","tag-deterrence","tag-dual-capable-aircraft","tag-eastern-europe","tag-financial-times","tag-kremlin","tag-nato","tag-nuclear-strikes","tag-poland","tag-russia","tag-us-nuclear-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}