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Russia is confronted with “colossal threats” that mean that it must continuously improve its nuclear weapons, warned the head of the state of Atomic Energy Agency.
“Now, at the current geopolitical moment, it is a time of colossal threats for the existence of our country,” said Alexey Likhachev, director of Rosatom, on Thursday 21 August, the Russian State news agency Ria.
“That is why the nuclear shield – it is also the sword – is a guarantee of our sovereignty […] Today we understand that the nuclear shield should only be improved in the coming years, “said Likhachev, originally in Russian.
Nuclear tensions between Russia and the defensive alliance led by the US were raised during the Moscow invasion of Ukraine.
Russia has the world’s largest arsenal of nuclear weapons and has modernized it in recent years to record hypersonic missiles, which Moscow claims to penetrate current Western anti -aircraft systems.
The US is developing a new space -based rocket defense shield that President Donald Trump has called the “Golden Dome”.
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