Russia will not give the NATO military access to its command posts in case a missile defense system is built jointly with NATO.
"Giving anyone access to this virtual red button, so much discussed by some media, is something that can never happen. It is impossible," Russia’s NATO Ambassador Dmitry Rogozin said in an interview with Interfax.
"We will not put our system of strategic nuclear forces and system of aerospace defense under anyone else’s control. They will always remain under Russian sovereign national control," he said.
The same principles will work in the reverse direction, he also said.
"No illusions should be built concerning the Russian finger being on some NATO, or American virtual red button. This is unrealistic. Cooperation must proceed within absolutely different parameters," Rogozin said.
