INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russia may make a new deployment of nuclear weapons in response to U.S
weapons including Tomahawk cruise missiles in Germany starting in 2026 to act as a deterrent.Moscow criticized the move, accusing Washington
of taking a step toward a new Cold War.The Kremlin warned over the weekend that the deployment of American missiles in Germany could make
European capitals targets for Russian missiles.Responding to the Kremlin's warning, a U.S
latersaid the planned U.S
measures in a way we consider the most acceptable if German officials justify their escalation under the pretext that we have something in
harboring aggressive intentions and who are trying to provoke us into certain steps that are undesirable for anyone and fraught with further
cruise missiles to Germany after a 20-year absence
deployment of Pershing ballistic missiles in West Germany during the height of the Cold War in the 1980s prompted widespread demonstrations,
with hundreds of thousands coming out in protest.Washington continued stationing missiles through the reunification of Germany and into the
But following the end of the Cold War, the United States significantly reduced the number of missiles stationed in Europe as the threat from
full-scale invasion of Ukraine.AFP contributed reporting.
