Analysts say Russia, while already the world's fifth-largest military spender, needs strong conventional forces to reduce its overreliance on its aging Soviet-era nuclear missile deterrent.
Two nuclear missile submarines — one British, one French — armed with a likely total of well more than 100 thermonuclear warheads collided under the Atlantic Ocean earlier this month.
本月早些时候,两艘分别来自英法的潜艇载有可能超过100枚热核反应弹头在大西洋底相撞。
Spreading the nuclear around would produce thousands of times more long-lived fallout than a simple nuclear missile attack.
核扩散要比单纯的核弹袭击带来的长期效应坏上成千上万倍。
It has agreed to host the radar component of a proposed NATO nuclear missile defence shield, a project that is aimed mainly at Iran, with which Turkey has a tricky relationship.