U.S. President Barack Obama (R) and Russia's President Vladimir Putin attend a family photo shoot for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders' meeting at the International Convention Center at Yanqi Lake in Beijing, November 11, 201
U.S. President Barack Obama (R) and Russia's President Vladimir Putin attend a family photo shoot for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders' meeting at the International Convention Center at Yanqi Lake in Beijing, November 11, 2014. Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon

Bruce Gagnon, an American anti-war activist and coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space organisation, has said any military confrontation feared by the global community that could lead to a nuclear catastrophe with Russia is actually being fuelled by the United States and NATO.

Cited in a report by Press TV, Gagnon said the United States and NATO are on a demolition plan to break up Russia to force it to submit to Western powers. The frightening thing is that Russia has shown it will not succumb to such powers and bullying.

"It's very clear to me that the United States is trying to break Russia's will," Gagnon said. He noted that if Russia will not succumb or turn in peacefully, the solution is to break the country into pieces, "the way Iraq is being broken, the way Syria is being broken up."

Siegfried Hecker, an American nuclear scientist and a research professor in the department of management science and engineering at Stanford University, wrote in an article published by the New York Times that such posturings by the U.S. and NATO against Russia could invoke the possibility of a nuclear catastrophe. On Thursday, Russia informed the U.S. it is already abandoning an earlier joint agreement that paved the way to secure nuclear materials on the Russian territory. Hecker said this was more in retaliation to the Ukraine crisis where the U.S. "isolated" Russia from broader scientific and nuclear energy cooperation. Such isolation, however, will give off two results - "diminish safety and security, as well as threaten nuclear cooperation in other key areas of common interest, such as countering nuclear terrorism and preventing nuclear proliferation."

Gagnon said both the U.S. and NATO may want to rethink their plans of how to make Russia submit to supposed authority. The U.S. and NATO's plan, he said, does lead to more instability, and in a worst case scenario, "could lead to a nuclear war as tension increase." The activist likewise believed the entire Ukraine situation is purposely planned by the U.S. and NATO because it wants to create chaos on the Russian border. "It hopes that the chaos will spread into Russia," he noted.