A U.S. official says that the United States could not stop the hundreds of nuclear warheads that Russia possesses if they were fired around the same time.
Rose Gottemoeller, Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, made the comments recently in Bucharest, Romania at the Missile Defense Agency.
She said that missile defenses provide reassurance that helps reduce countries’ vulnerability and can also buy time for other courses of action if confronted with an attack, but that ultimately Russia has many more warheads deployed than the U.S. has interceptors.
Gottemoeller said, according to a transcript made public by the U.S. State Department, …read more
Source: The Epoch Times
