Russian General Seeks Nuclear First-Strike Option Against US
Thursday, 04 Sep 2014 07:54 PM By Sean Piccoli A Russian defense minister wants his country's official military doctrine rewritten to allow for a pre-emptive nuclear attack against the United States and NATO, the Russian-language news agency Interfax reports. Russian Army Gen. Yury Yakubov said the doctrine, last revised in 2010, should be updated to classify the United States and other NATO countries as the "main enemy" of Russia, Interfax reported on Wednesday. Yakubov, who is from the defense ministry's inspector general's office, also said it is time "to hash out the conditions under which Russia could carry out a pre-emptive strike with the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces," according to a translation of the general's remarks by the English-language Moscow Times . Urgent: Do You Approve of Obama's Handling of Foreign Policy? Vote Here Russia categorizes its nuclear arsenal as a defensive measure to