Biden approved the top secret document of the US nuclear strategy
According to Webangah News quoted by Mehr News Agency Quoting Rashatudi, the New York Times newspaper wrote in a report quoting several Pentagon and National Security Council officials that Joe Biden, The country’s president approved a top-secret nuclear strategy document aimed at what he called “intimidation of Russia, China and North Korea”.
The document, called the “Guidelines for the Use of Nuclear Weapons,” was adopted in March. It was the first time that US nuclear doctrine focused on the rapid development of Beijing’s growing nuclear capabilities. According to The Times, the document, which is updated roughly every four years, is so secret that no digital copy exists.
Vipin Narang, acting adviser to the secretary of defense on US space policy, said earlier this month that Biden “has recently It has issued an update to justify the use of nuclear weapons against multiple nuclear enemies. According to him, China’s growing nuclear arsenal was a problem that the United States “neither predicted nor took into account when preparing and compiling the document on the use of nuclear weapons several decades ago.”
White House spokesman Sean Sauvet said of the New York Times report that “the guidelines for the use of nuclear weapons issued this year, It is not a reaction to a specific institution, country or threat.”
According to Pentagon estimates in 2023, by 2030, China will double its arsenal of operational nuclear warheads to a It will deliver a thousand caps. According to the Stockholm International Center for Peace Studies, the United States currently has 5,555 nuclear warheads and Russia has 6,255 nuclear warheads.
Amendment and revision and approval of the US nuclear strategy document amid the escalation of tensions between the US and NATO on the one hand and China and Russia, on the other hand, have done so that the parties accuse each other of escalating tensions regarding Ukraine and Taiwan. In addition, the increase in North Korea’s ballistic missile tests has also worried Washington.
Both Moscow and Beijing want America to create war and chaos around the world and try to impose its will on Other countries accuse. Earlier this month, Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Zhang Xiaogang urged the United States and its allies to “put aside the Cold War mentality.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin emphasized during his visit to China in May that the strategic cooperation between Moscow and Beijing “It has not targeted any country.”