Tension between Russia and the West may be distracting them from cooperating to prevent an accidental nuclear confrontation or a dirty bomb attack by militants, nuclear policy experts said on Tuesday.
Former U.S. Secretary of Defence William Perry said he regretted the current lack of communication between the United States and Russia, which went into a deep freeze after Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea.
"We are about to recreate the conditions that nearly brought us to the brink of nuclear war" during the Cold War, Perry said.
Anatoly Adamishin, a former Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, argued that the U.S. has focused on a policy of "strangling Russia" and hoping for the departure of Russian President Vladimir Putin, which has the effect of putting Russia at the forefront of a list of U.S. enemies.
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WNU Editor: I suspect that both the U.S. and Russia have all the resources and focus (and will continue to keep these resources there) that they need to prevent such a terror attack .... even if there are tensions between the U.S. and Russia.
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