Geneva, 16 January 2001 - Early laboratory results confirm that pieces of DU penetrators found at sites targeted by NATO during the 1999 Kosovo conflict contain Uranium 236, the United Nations Environment Programme reported here today
By JUDY DEMPSEY Published: September 30, 2010 BERLIN — Two months before what could be the most important NATO summit meeting in more than a decade, the 28 member states of the alliance have received a draft of its new strategic concept, which for the fir
Finlands säkerhetspolitiska miljö förändrades i grunden när Ryssland invaderade Ukraina i februari 2022. Efter en säkerhetspolitisk omvärdering beslöt Finland att ansöka om medlemskap i försvarsalliansen Nato i maj 2022. Finland blev medlem i Nato i april 2023.
"Natos engagemang i att förstärka det gemensamma försvaret och skrämseleffekten har framhävts sedan 2014, då Ryssland illegalt annekterade Krimhalvön. Som en del av Natos reformprocess har man bl.a. utökat närvaron i fördragsorganisationens östliga medlemsländer, utvecklat truppernas beredskap och snabbinsatsförmåga, effektiviserat beredskapsplaneringen och utökat de militära övningarna. I en mera omfattande helhet bestående av skrämseleffekt och försvar ingår utöver konventionella trupper också kärnvapen och missilförsvar. De kompletteras av cyberförsvar och rymdkapaciteter."
By WARWICK POWELL | China Daily Global | Updated: 2024-07-29
The ongoing chaos that seems to be the defining characteristic of US domestic politics sets the backdrop for the attempts of the United States to reassert its hegemony across the world through the global expansion of NATO. US political chaos reflects a political economy that is failing to meet the aspirations of the US people, let alone enable the US to recover its position as the unparalleled global military hegemon.
The Kremlin has shown little interest, in particular, in redeploying or eliminating its estimated 2,000 tactical nuclear arms with ranges that can reach European soil. By contrast, the United States fields approximately one-tenth of that size non-strategic atomic arsenal in a handful of allied nations in Europe, instead relying more on NATO's superior conventional capacity for defense." Russia military occupation of Crimea and subsequent annexation of the territory over the loud protests of Kiev has disturbed NATO to a degree not seen since the Cold War. The events of the past few weeks have triggered a significant rethink of the role of the Western alliance in deterring Russian military activity in Eastern and Central Europe."
"Asked how U.S. plans to modernize tactical nuclear weapons fit with the German call for their withdrawal, the government argues that the B61 Life Extension Program (LEP) is a “national decision” by the United States, which has to be seen “independent of the question of implementation of nuclear sharing within NATO.” This is at odds with previous arguments by Chancellor Merkel that participating in nuclear sharing arrangements “secures Germany’s influence in this sensitive area of alliance politics.” If deployment of new nuclear weapons in Europe is not such a sensitive area, what is?"
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Reacting to Obama's vision of a nuclear-free world, German Foreign Minister Steinmeier has called for American nuclear weapons to be removed from Germany. His stance is in opposition to Chancellor Merkel, who wants to keep the bombs to sec
ALTBMD, that's Active Layered Theatre Ballistic Missile Defence System, which is designed to defend against missiles with a range of up to 3,000 kilometres. Finland and the NRF
Yesterday, during a briefing in Latvia's capital Riga, NATO Gen. Philip Breedlove said that NATO and the United States are switching their defense doctrine from assurance to deterrence in Eastern Europe in response to a “resurgent and aggressive Russia." Breedlove added that “We are prepared to fight and win if we have to ... our focus will expand from assurance to deterrence, including measures that vastly improve our overall readiness,” Breedlove said following talks with Baltic region NATO commanders.
Utrikes- och säkerhetspolitiska källor uppger för tidningen Iltalehti att finska regeringens lagförslag om anslutning till Nato tillåter försvarsalliansen att föra kärnvapen till finskt territorium. -Jag anser att det är mycket viktigt att vi inte sätter den sortens förhandsvillkor, eller begränsar vårt manöverutrymme, när det gäller permanenta baser eller kärnvapen, sa statsminister Sanna Marin i tv på lördagen.