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Moscow Criticizes NATO, Threatens to Modify Nuclear StrategyFrom Thursday, October 2, 2003 issue.

Moscow Criticizes NATO, Threatens to Modify Nuclear Strategy

Russia warned today that it would be forced to re-evaluate its nuclear weapons policies if NATO failed to adopt changes sought by Moscow.

“Should NATO remain a military alliance with its current offensive military strategy, this will prompt a fundamental reassessment of Russia’s military planning and arms procurement,” according to an internal Russian Defense Ministry document released today.

The review would include “changes to Russia’s nuclear strategy,” the document said.

Moscow has not approved of past NATO expansion into Eastern Europe and the alliance is now setting its eyes on the former Soviet Baltic states — Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania — according to Agence France-Presse.

“Russia is carefully following NATO’s transformation, and expects it to put a complete end to direct and indirect elements of its anti-Russian policy,” the document said (Agence France-Press/SpaceWar.com, Oct. 2).

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