Russia To Revise Military Plans If U.S. Lowers Nuke Threshold – Ivanov
BERLIN. Sept 13 (Interfax) - Russia will revise its military development plans in case the U.S. grants its armed forces the right to launch preemptive nuclear strikes against countries suspected of developing weapons of mass destruction, said Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov.

"If media reports on such U.S. plans are true, this will call for the revision of our military planning," Ivanov told journalists in Berlin on Tuesday.

"This is a very dangerous trend. Reducing the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons is very dangerous," he said.