Russia Warns NATO of Possible Nuclear Doctrine Revision Ahead of Alliance Expansion

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov has said that Moscow would revise its defense strategy, including its nuclear weapons doctrine, if NATO continues to maintain an offensive doctrine, The Hindu reported today (see GSN, Oct. 10, 2003). 

Ivanov’s warning came shortly before NATO was scheduled to admit seven new members, including the three Baltic former Soviet states — Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

“If NATO is preserved as a military alliance with its current offensive military doctrine, Russia’s military planning and principles of development of the Russian armed forces, including their nuclear component, will be revised accordingly,” he wrote in the latest issue of the journal Russia in Global Politics (Vladimir Radyuhin, The Hindu, March 26).

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