Moscow Slams Washington Over Development of ‘Prompt Global Strike’ System
SputnikNews.com
06.02.2016
Washington’s ongoing efforts at creating missile defense systems and developing the Prompt Global Strike (PGS) precision conventional weapon program has a continued destabilizing effect on nuclear disarmament talks, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Saturday.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The US Prompt Global Strike system allows Washington to carry out high-precision non-nuclear attacks using hypersonic weapons from US territory at targets throughout the world within about an hour after launch.
>”The second circumstance that deprives us of the possibility of holding talks over further reductions is linked to Washington’s ongoing destabilizing actions in areas such as the creation of a global missile defense system, the continued development of the means to carry out disarming strikes without using nuclear warheads while having the same range as strategic missiles. I mean the Prompt Global Strike program,” Ryabkov said.