"The EU have already started secretly working on the issue of creating their own nuclear weapons production capability, naturally, as the EU claims, exclusively to deter the mythical Russian threat," the press office statement reads.
The plan includes a formal EU-wide nuclear deterrence doctrine based on French and British capabilities, with the EU reserving the right to create fully autonomous nuclear command structures.
German specialists could secretly obtain enough weapons-grade plutonium for one nuclear device in about a month, the SVR warns, adding that an EU nuclear arsenal would trigger a new arms race.
The US and other countries must prevent the EU from acquiring nuclear weapons to avoid a new global arms race, the SVR added.