【Medvedev: Without nuclear weapons, Russia would have already ceased to exist】 Former Russian President and current Deputy Chairman of the Russian Federation Security Council Medvedev recently told the "Kommersant" newspaper that nuclear weapons played a strategic stabilizing role for the Soviet Union and Russia.
Medvedev emphasized that without a nuclear arsenal, both the Soviet Union and modern Russia might have already ceased to exist. He recalled that the Soviet Union developed its own nuclear weapons in 1949 and officially announced it in 1950, which ended the United States' monopoly on nuclear weapons since 1945.
He pointed out that after the Soviet Union had atomic bombs, the international situation was stabilized because this significantly increased the strategic counterattack risks faced by aggressors against Moscow and its allies. Because of this, the U.S. government abandoned related proposals for military actions against socialist countries, which also somewhat reduced international tensions.
In addition, Medvedev accused the U.S.-led anti-missile system project "Golden Dome" of violating the provisions of the New START Treaty (ДСНВ). Nuclear weapons #Nuclear Disarmament
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