Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures during his annual news conference in Moscow, Russia (Photo: AP)
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.
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