The Russian best nuclear official this week said that Moscow is confronted with ‘colossal threats’ and must update his nuclear capacities.
Without giving a name directly where the most important nuclear threat from Russia comes from, said director -general of the state of Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom Alexei Likhachev: “The current geopolitical situation, is a time of colossal threats for the existence of our country.”
“That is why the nuclear shield, which is also a sword, is a guarantee for our sovereignty,” he added, according to the Russian news agency Ria. “We understand today that the nuclear shield should only be improved in the coming years.”
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Russian President Vladimir Putin meets director-general of the Russian Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom Alexey Likhachev in the Novo-Oogaryovo State Residence outside Moscow on 19 May 2022. (Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik/AFP via Getty images)
The comments came together less than a week after Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump met for a face-to-face meeting that the first time an American leader had met the Kremlin chef, since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.
While Trump and Putin seemed positive after the conversations, little seemed to have been achieved in the meeting and hope around a ceasefire of Russia-Ukraine seemed to fall as the week progressed.
It is unclear why Likhachev has currently published comments about Russia’s nuclear program, and he has not detailed in detail what updates he would like to make to the “Shield” program of Moscow.
Trump issued similar comments earlier this year when he announced his plans in May to develop the “Golden Dome” rocket defense system – inspired by the “Iron Dome” defense system of Israel – and that it is expected to cost at least $ 175 billion.
Although security experts have sounded an alarm when it comes to the escalating nuclear development of China, Russia and the US continue to have 90% of the nuclear arsenal of the world together.
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Image shows data from the Federation of American scientists who indicate that from 2025 there are 12,331 nuclear weapons. (Federagraphic by Visual Capitalist via Getty Images)
Moscow continues to retain almost 4,400 nuclear core heads, of which more than 1500 are “strategically used”, while the US has more than 3,700 nuclear heads in its stocks with 1,400, according to the arms control.
Although nuclear disarmament was the standing international goal after the end of the Cold War, the process of this policy remains dubious because the relations between Washington and Moscow have again become precarious in the midst of Putin’s war in Ukraine, and his budding relationship with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
The new starting treaty remains the only bilateral nuclear arms control agreement between the US and Russia, and although it was extended in 2021, it will expire in February 2026. The future of the treaty – signed for the first time in 2010 – also remains unclear because Moscow paused his participation in the agreement in 2023.
Russian military vehicles, including Yars Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Launchers, Roll on Red Square during the Victory Day Military Parade in Central Moscow on May 9, 2024. (Alexanderov/AFP via Getty images)
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Putin said that this suspension meant that he would continue to comply with the stock limits under the treaty, but he would not allow constant American inspections.
