MOSCOW, May 10 (RIA Novosti) - The global arms race has reached a new technological level, President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday.
"The key issues of disarmament have practically been removed from the global agenda against the backdrop of the threat of international terrorism," Putin said in his annual state of the nation address.
"We still have no guarantees that weapons, including nuclear weapons, will not be deployed in the space," he said. "There is the potential threat of the construction and proliferation of low-yield nuclear weapons. Moreover, media and experts have been discussing the use of intercontinental ballistic missiles with a non-nuclear warhead. The launch of such a missile may provoke an inappropriate reaction from nuclear powers including a full-scale counterstrike with the use of strategic nuclear forces."
