Vladimir Putin threatens to drop New START nuclear treaty
The Russian president has warned that unless the US comes to the negotiating table, a key nuclear weapons treaty will collapse. If it does, it will be the second such pact to fail under Donald Trump’s leadership.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said an Obama-era nuclear weapons pact would lapse unless the US took an interest in renewing it.
The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) pact limits the number of deployed nuclear warheads, missiles and bombers and is due to expire in 2021 unless renewed.
What Putin said:
Speaking on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Putin said:
- „If no one feels like extending the agreement — New START — well, we won’t do it then.“
- „We said a hundred times that we are ready (to extend it),“ but Washington is „not conducting any talks“ with Moscow on the matter.
- „There won’t be any instruments limiting an arms race, for example, deploying space-based weapons.“
- „This means that nuclear weapons will be hanging over every one of us all the time.“
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