Media: US removes nuclear weapons from Europe

Kommersant sources in Russian governmental structures say that neither the US, nor NATO and European members of the alliance have not informed Russia about reduction of their nuclear arsenal in Europe

 

According to one of their versions, such changes may be related to modernisation of the bombs.

According to rubaltic, citing Kommersant, experts of the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) claim that the US has been secretly exporting its tactical nuclear weapons from Europe for several years.

“The FAS report states that the number of B61 nuclear gravity bombs in Europe has been reduced from 150 to 100. However, Washington has not officially reported anything about the removal of the bombs”, –  the report said.

The newspaper’s sources in Russian state agencies stated that neither the US, nor NATO and European members of the alliance notified Russia about the reduction of the nuclear arsenal in Europe. According to one of their versions, such changes may be related to modernisation of the bombs.