He made such a statement at a meeting of the first committee of the UN General Assembly dealing with disarmament issues.
As Vorontsov emphasized, the emergence of new weapons systems in Russia is progressing, accompanied by the optimization of the arsenal of means, including through the elimination of obsolete types.
“At the same time, the development of promising complexes is of a forced nature and is associated with the need to maintain a strategic balance, which can be undermined by destabilizing steps towards the development of the United States by an unrestricted global missile defense system in combination with high-precision non-nuclear weapons of a global strike capable of solving strategic tasks, as well as other actions. threatening strategic stability, "RIA Novosti quotes him.
All these factors will have to be discussed "in the most thorough way" in the framework of the Russian-American strategic dialogue, the diplomat emphasized.
He added that this is necessary for a long-term and mutually acceptable solution within the framework of the formation of a new and adequate "security equation" to modern realities.
In May, Russian President Vladimir Putin called the nuclear deterrent force the most advanced in the world, with Russia among the top ten countries in terms of national defense spending, occupying the bottom line.
As Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov noted, Russia is ahead of the West in creating weapons based on new physical principles.