MOSCOW, July 20. /TASS/. One of NATO’s key member states has expressed concern over nuclear weapons-related research underway in Germany, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) said.
"According to information received by the SVR, relevant ministries in one of NATO’s key member states have expressed concern over active research in Germany focused on nuclear weapons-related developments," the SVR press bureau said.
Germany's Western allies are also worried about the scale of the country's research in key nuclear weapons-related fields, including advanced materials science, shockwave physics, nuclear physics and neutron physics, involving 30 universities nationwide, the SVR said. "These include the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Ruhr University Bochum, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, RWTH Aachen University and the Technical University of Berlin. Practical experiments are conducted at six research reactors operating at these institutions," the SVR said.
According to the statement, NATO officials in Brussels also point to Germany's meticulous approach and close interagency coordination in developing technologies for the production and industrial manufacture of high-energy explosives and electronic detonation systems.
