Tactical nuclear weapons: Washington intends to intensify the dialogue with Moscow

The United States intends to intensify the dialogue with Russia on the reduction of tactical nuclear weapons, said Thursday the U.S. Senator John Kerry, a candidate for secretary of state.

"As far as I know, the dialogue on tactical weapons continues ... We will continue and we will improve our relations with Russia," said M.Kerry before the Committee on International Affairs of the Senate Thursday which examines his candidacy for the head American diplomacy.

Russian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Ryabkov said last October that Russia was ready to conduct a dialogue with the United States to sign an agreement to reduce tactical nuclear weapons, but that she wanted back Washington within its territory its nuclear warheads deployed abroad as Moscow had done. These weapons as aviation bombs are now in "advanced deployment zone" in Europe. The United States must repatriate nuclear warheads on their territory and destroy their infrastructure for rapid redeployment. "

Russia has already invited the other nuclear powers to deploy tactical nuclear weapons on their national soil only, stop the preparations for the use of these weapons, to prohibit operations using tactical nuclear weapons with the participation of non-nuclear countries and to dismantle the structures responsible for such weapons deployed abroad.

U.S. President Barack Obama recently hoped that future agreements between Russia and America would focus on the reduction of strategic nuclear weapons, but also tactical and non-deployed.