"US nuclear weapons must be taken out to national territory," RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.

Vishnevetsky also called the fact that non-nuclear countries are working out the use of American nuclear weapons as a factor that negatively affects security and increases the risk of nuclear conflict, and is also a brake on the disarmament process.

Earlier, U.S. Undersecretary of State for Arms Control Bonnie Jenkins said that all U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons should be included in a future arms control regime.