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Biden orders to prepare US for possible nuclear confrontations with russia, China and North Korea – The New Y

Biden orders to prepare US for possible nuclear confrontations with russia, China and North Korea – The New York Times

U.S. President Joe Biden has approved a classified nuclear strategy in which he ordered U.S. forces to prepare for possible coordinated nuclear confrontations with the aggressor state of the russian federation, China and North Korea.

The New York Times reports this.

According to the publication, back in March, Biden approved a highly classified nuclear strategic plan for the United States, where for the first time the American strategy was reoriented to focus on China’s rapid expansion in its nuclear arsenal. The Pentagon believes that within the next decade, China's stockpiles of nuclear weapons will equal those of the United States and russia.

"The White House never announced that Mr. Biden had approved the revised strategy, called the “Nuclear Employment Guidance,” which also newly seeks to prepare the United States for possible coordinated nuclear challenges from China, Russia and North Korea. The document, updated every four years or so, is so highly classified that there are no electronic copies, only a small number of hard copies distributed to a few national security officials and Pentagon commanders," the report said.

The Pentagon estimates that China's nuclear force will grow to 1,000 by 2030 and 1,500 by 2035, roughly the number currently deployed by the United States and russia. However, Beijing is already ahead of this schedule, as it has begun loading nuclear missiles into new minefields, the NYT reports.

In September 2023, CNN, citing satellite images and military analysts, reported that the russian federation, the United States, and China may be preparing for nuclear tests.

On July 21, the U.S. National Nuclear Security Agency (NNSA) published data on the number of nuclear weapons in Washington's arsenal.

As of March 2024, the aggressor state russia had the world's largest stockpile of nuclear warheads.

In June, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said NATO was negotiating to deploy more nuclear weapons because of threats from russia and China.