Steven D
Kelley, a former CIA/NSA contractor, made the comments in an
interview with Press TV on Sunday when asked about US officials who
called for modernizing the country’s decades-old nuclear forces.
The
commander of the US Strategic Command, Adm. Cecil Haney, and other
Pentagon officials have said that the US will risk eroding its
credibility as a deterrent to attack by others if it does not start
the modernization process now.
“The
delivery systems for the United States’ nuclear arsenal are
considerably obsolete and out-of-date, they have not been modernized
and all of these rockets have actually been used well beyond the
useful date that they were intended to be used for, so those useful
dates have been extended considerably,” Kelley said.
“The
Russians, on the other hand, have become quite advanced in their
delivery system and missile technology and unlike the Americans, they
have quite a few new systems and development and obviously with the
success of the S-300 and S-400, the Americans are certainly long
overdue in trying to catch up and maintain some sort of a credible
delivery system,” he added.
He went on
to say that “the players that would be requiring some sort of a
psychological demonstration would mostly be junior players like North
Korea."
US
officials’ warning over the country’s old nuclear forces came
after North Korea conducted a nuclear test on January 6, triggering a
diplomatic row.
Following
the test, North Korea said it would stop its nuclear tests if the
United States signed a peace treaty with Pyongyang and stopped its
joint annual military maneuvers with South Korea.
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