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Russia’s Foreign Ministry Denied Nuclear Weapon Leak
There has been no leakage of nuclear weapons from arsenals in Russia, the RF Foreign Ministry’s Information Department made clear in response to the statement of U.S Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates questioned the safety of Russia’s nuclear arsenal when addressing the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace October 28.
When responding to that statement, Russia’s diplomats emphasized the repeated nature of such public concerns of the United States, whereby a sizeable portion of Russia’s nuclear weapon stockpile had been allegedly stolen or lost in 1990s.
The insinuation of that type is absolutely groundless, representatives of the RF Foreign Ministry pointed out. All difficulties of early 1990s notwithstanding, Russia had always maintained the standards for safety and physical protection of nuclear weapon arsenal at the highest level, the diplomats said.
Under the declaration that Russia’s and U.S. leaders sealed in Bratislava in February of 2005, the nuclear weapon protection corresponds to up-to-date requirements both in Russia and the United States, the diplomats reminded.
In Washington, people in the RF Foreign Ministry concluded, they might have preferred to forget the document due to their own faults with preserving the safety of nuclear arsenal.
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