US wants Russia to match future US tactical nuclear cuts: "US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called Thursday on NATO to press Russia to match any future move by Washington to reduce its estimated 240 tactical nuclear weapons in Europe.
In a dinner speech to fellow NATO members in Tallinn, the capital of the former Soviet state of Estonia, she also urged the alliance to embrace missile defence as an integral part of NATO's deterrence against new threats.
In the post Cold War era, these perceived threats from nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction, US officials say, come no longer from Russia but from states like Iran and Islamist militant groups like Al-Qaeda."
