Russia will develop, not use, nuclear weapons: Vladimir Putin

Moscow

: President Vladimir Putin says Russia will continue to develop nuclear weapons but doesn't intend to use them.

The Russian leader made the comment in a documentary called \"World Order\" that was aired on state television on Sunday night.

\"Russia as a leading nuclear country will be improving this weapon as a containment factor; the nuclear triad is the basis of our nuclear security polices,\" he said, referring to the three main delivery systems for nuclear warheads - bombers, intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine-launched ICBMs.

\"We have never brandished or will brandish this nuclear club, but our military doctrine allocates it a place and role,\" he said, according to excerpts reported by the state news agency Tass.