US seeks to control Russia's non-strategic nuclear weapons

Lan Ha DNUM_BGZAFZCABJ 11:23

(Baonghean.vn) - On May 15, US Deputy Secretary of Defense David Trachtenberg said that US President Donald Trump has assigned his national security team to find solutions to improve the effectiveness of arms control, including Russia's non-strategic nuclear weapons in arms control negotiations.

Tổng thống Mỹ Donald Trump. Ảnh: Getty
US President Donald Trump. Photo: Getty
“The president wants arms control to provide real security for the American people and our allies,” Trachtenberg said during a hearing before the House Foreign Affairs Committee. “The president has therefore tasked his national security team with thinking more broadly about arms control, both in terms of the countries and the weapons systems involved. This could include Russia’s newer strategic systems that are not captured by the New START Treaty, finding ways to redress the significant imbalance in non-strategic nuclear weapons that currently favors Russia, and engaging China in efforts to increase transparency and limit its nuclear weapons ambitions.”


Two days earlier, during talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in the Russian city of Sochi, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his Russian counterpart agreed to hold broader talks on arms control, strategic and security issues between the two countries “in the coming weeks”.

The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) signed by Russia and the United States in 2010, effective until 2021, stipulates that each side will reduce its nuclear arsenal so that after 7 years, the total number of nuclear weapons does not exceed 700 intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-launched ballistic missiles, heavy bombers, 1,550 nuclear warheads and 800 launchers.

After the US President announced the country's withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty signed with the former Soviet Union in 1987, the US administration is also considering whether to extend New START, which is scheduled to expire in February 2021.

Mr. Pompeo said President Trump has asked his national security advisory group to look more broadly at arms control, including countries and weapons systems outside the traditional US-Russia framework./.

According to AFP
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