The head of the armed forces has warned we at the dawn of a “third nuclear age” and the UK has many dilemmas.
Admiral Sir tony Radakin said there is a “remote chance” that Russia will directly attack the UK should war break out.
The Chief of the Defence Staff said in a wide-ranging speech that the British Army would be destroyed within 6 to 12 months if they were to fight a war on the scale of the Ukraine conflict.
Sir Tony said that the UK has to be “clear-eyed in our assessment” of threats we are facing, he added, “That includes recognising that there is only a remote chance of a significant direct attack or invasion by Russia on the United Kingdom, and that’s the same for the whole of NATO.”
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Sit Tony said that Moscow knows full well the “response will be overwhelming” and the nuclear deterrent has to be “kept strong and strengthened.”
Sir Tony added, “We are at the dawn of a third nuclear age, which is altogether more complex. It is defined by multiple and concurrent dilemmas, proliferating nuclear and disruptive technologies and the almost total absence of the security architectures that went before.”
He said the first nuclear age was in the Cold War whilst the second was “governed by disarmament efforts and counter proliferation.”
There are also “wild threats of tactical nuclear use” by Russia, China as they are building up their weapons stocks and then there is North Korea’s “erratic behaviour” with their threat to the West there is also Iran who is failing to cooperate with a nuclear deal.
Sir Tony added the UK’s nuclear arsenal is “the one part of our inventory of which Russia is most aware and has more impact on (President Vladimir) Putin than anything else.”
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