Days ahead of the crucial Nuclear Security Summit, the Obama Administration has expressed concern over the deployment of “battlefield nuclear weapons” by Pakistan, calling it “destabilising aspects of their nuclear programme”.
“We have been very concerned about Pakistan’s deployment of battlefield nuclear weapons,” the US Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, Rise E Gottemoeller told members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during a Congressional hearing on Thursday. “Battlefield nuclear weapons, by their very nature, pose security threat because you’re taking battlefield nuclear weapons out to the field where, as, you know, as a necessity, they cannot be bade as secure,” Gottemoeller said in response to a question.