NATO Secretary General believes that if the alliance abandoned such weapons as part of its strategic concept to deter potential adversaries, more countries would seek to build their own atomic bomb.
NATO seeks a world without nuclear weapons, but as long as it exists, the organization will remain a nuclear alliance. This was stated in an article by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg published in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on Sunday.
At the same time, Stoltenberg once again said that NATO is “a defensive alliance”.
“NATO’s nuclear weapons are not intended to provoke conflicts, but are aimed at preserving peace and deterring aggressive actions”, – the article says. The Secretary General noted that despite the Coronavirus pandemic, there are other global problems as well. – “Terrorist threats persist, authoritarian regimes challenge democracies, we see the development of nuclear weapons in countries such as North Korea, as well as aggressive actions of Russia”, – he argued.
“In contrast, NATO seeks a world without nuclear weapons through arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation”, – the alliance’s Secretary General said.- “NATO’s nuclear agreements are as important today as ever”, – Stoltenberg concluded.
In his view, if the alliance abandoned nuclear weapons as part of its strategic concept to deter potential adversaries, more countries would seek to build their own nuclear bomb.