The new nuclear weapon intentions announced by the U.S. government caused world-wide protest. China reacted shocked on the uncoverings from the US-press, whereupon China belongs to one of the seven “target states” for a possible nuclear strike by the USA.

The Federal Government of Germany confirmed their opinion on nuclear arms reduction. The Russian foreign secretary Igor Iwanow stated that the US-Government has to persuade the world that the USA are not going to make suchlike plans.
Last weekend, restricted documents from the Pentagon have been published in Washington. These documents focus on the use of nuclear weapons in the middle-east conflict, on the Korean peninsula or during a Chinese offence against Taiwan. As possible aggressors Iran, Iraq and North-Korea are mentioned, also Syria, Lybia and China.
The relationship with Russia has substantially ameliorated, but the Russian nuclear weapons arsenal has still to be regarded as a dangerous threat. Also new, smaller nuclear weapons have to be developed, which are able to destroy subterrestrial buildings.
The French defence secretary stated that it still considers the nuclear weapons a deterrent, but denies its use as a military strategy. France abides its concept not to use nuclear weapons, but to sustain its nuclear clout.
The Korean vice foreign secretary mentioned the probability that North-Korea could eventually refuse any dialogue with the US.
The Chinese state department demanded a statement from the US. China poses no threat for any state, explained the spokesman Sun Yuxi. He reminded the USA of the agreement between both states not to use nuclear weapons against each other.

Irans former president Ali Akbar Haschemi Rafsandschani accused the USA of intimidating other states to force them into obedience. The Syrian state department said it would file a complaint with the UN security council, if the naming of Syria as a potential target can be verified. The US foreign secretary, Colin Powell, said last Sunday that the whole idea is just a military theory that gives the president all options in the case of an offensive with weapons of mass destruction and that it is not a plan certain to be put into action.