Nuclear Arms Treaty

• Biden proposes 5 year extension of Russia nuclear arms treaty

  Russia has said for some time that it would welcome an extension of the New START treaty, which limits the number of U.S. and Russian strategic nuclear weapons.

  World

  Jan 21, 2021
  
• ‘This won’t be easy’: Russia-U.S. nuclear arms treaty set to expire

  If U.S. President Donald Trump doesn’t extend the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty — only remaining U.S.-Russia arms control pact — or succeed in negotiating a replacement treaty, it will expire on Feb. 5.

  Politics

  May 23, 2020
  
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• China ‘will not stand idly by’ over U.S. deployment of midrange arms in Asia

  The statement comes after the U.S.’s withdrawal last week from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.

  World

  Aug 6, 2019
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• Russia suspends participation in nuclear arms treaty after U.S. announces withdrawal

  Putin suspended Russia’s obligations under the terms of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty.

  World

  Mar 4, 2019
• Russia releases satellite image purporting to show U.S. missile plant violating INF treaty

  Russia says the image proves the U.S. was violating a Cold War-era nuclear arms treaty two years before the Trump administration announced it was withdrawing from the agreement.

  World

  Feb 2, 2019
• Russia to abandon nuclear arms treaty after Trump pulls plug on 1987 pact

  Russia will abandon a centerpiece nuclear arms treaty but will only deploy intermediate-range nuclear missiles if Washington does so, President Vladimir Putin said.

  World

  Feb 2, 2019
• Putin hails U.S. withdrawal from Syria, warns nuclear war could destroy the planet

  Russia President Vladimir Putin warned that an arms dispute with the U.S. could move the world closer to nuclear war in his year-end press conference.

  World

  Dec 20, 2018
• Donald Trump bragged about his popularity, criticized Obama-era nuclear arms treaty during call with Putin

  In his first call as president with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump denounced a treaty that caps U.S. and Russian deployment of nuclear warheads as a bad deal for the United States, according to two U.S. official.

  Politics

  Feb 9, 2017