US seeks to control Russia's non-strategic nuclear weapons
(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.
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| US President Donald Trump. Photo: Getty |
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 team to consider arms control more broadly, including countries and weapons systems outside the traditional US-Russia framework./.
