Russian senator warns of new arms race after US uses MOAB in Afghanistan

A Russian senator has threatened of commencement of a new round of arms race after the US used the largest non-nuclear bomb in Afghanistan.

The recent use of GBU-43 bomb also called as MOAB in Afghanistan by US may incite a new arms race.

The Russian's Federation Council's Foreign affairs Committee Member Igor Morozov told Sputnik that 'the US test of the new bomb in Afghanistan is an attempt to establish the world dominance with an element of a military threat which may initiate a new round of arms race and increase tension in the world'.

Morozov further said that Russia should start a discussion about the recent US test at the UN Security Council as quoted by the Sputnik.

Yesterday, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) confirmed and stated that the US forces used a 22,000-pound MOAB for the first time to conduct a strike on a tunnel structure used by the Islamic State terror group in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province.

Few days ago, US had carried a massive airstrike targeting the Shayrat air base in Syria which according to Pentagon, was carried out in retaliation for President Bashar al-Assad allegedly ordering a chemical attack against residents.

As told to the Sputnik at that time, Igor Morozov compared the airstrike on Syria to America's prior military interventions.

He told to Sputnik "The attack on the air base resembles the bombing of Yugoslavia, the military intervention in Iraq, the destruction of Libya and other instances when the United States violated international law". It has become evident that the chemical attack in Idlib was America's provocation to justify the airstrike on the base," he said.

It is still far too early to tell that the use of MOAB by US in Russia will lead to the new arms race but experts are analysing that the bombing may open up a 'can of worms' in view of the fact that Russia has the FOAB, which is reportedly four times as powerful as MOAB.

After the confirmed reports of the using of MOAB came, former Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned this. "I vehemently and in strongest words condemn the dropping of the latest weapon, the largest non-nuclear bomb, on Afghanistan by US. This is not the war on terror but the inhuman and most brutal misuse of our country as testing ground for new and dangerous weapons. It is upon us, Afghans, to stop the USA," he said on twitter.

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