MOSCOW. May 23 (Interfax-AVN) - Having adopted new systems of nuclear containment after signing the Treaty on Strategic Offensive Reductions Russia will get a chance to make an intellectual and economic spurt, Anatoly Dolgolaptev, president of the League in Support of Defense Industry Enterprises, said on Thursday.
As a rule, such technologies "produce impressive results in many spheres of industry," Dolgolaptev said in response to a question from Interfax-Military News Agency
"For Russia the Strategic Nuclear Forces is the cheapest way of preventing pressure on the country which has 30 percent of the world's natural resources and only three percent of the population," he stressed.
According to Dolgolaptev, "talks about the reduction of strategic offensive weapons are more of a politesse than a policy." "Americans have not been afraid of us for a long time, for they know that we will not be the first to use strategic weapons," he said.
At the same time, Dolgolaptev stressed that it was quite burdensome to maintain weapons that exceed the needed amount in numbers. "De Gaulle was absolutely right saying that for him it was not important whether the United States and USSR destroyed each other 19 times. He argued that France needed ammunition enough to eliminate its enemy only once," the industrialist noted.