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US scientists propose to point US nuclear warheads at the Russian economic facilities, but not cities

15 April 2009 10:02 (UTC +04:00)

Washington â€“APA. The United States has to point its nuclear warheads at 12 most important economic facilities of Russia, but not largest cities, said Federation of American Scientists (FAS) in its report, APA quotes Russiaâ€™s Kommersant newspaper. The federation proposed to target 150-194 Russian cities eight years ago, the newspaper said. According to the new report, changing direction of nuclear targets will reduce human losses and will prevent Russia from the effective military operations damaging its industrial facilities such as Gazprom, Rosneft, Rusal, Nornikel, Surgutneftgaz, Yevraz, Severstal, as well as Russian offices of the Italiaâ€™s Enel and Germanyâ€™s E.ON companies. Besides that the scientists think that U.S. has to reduce the number of nuclear warheads in cooperation with other nuclear countries and to eliminate warheads step by step.