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Russia says it sees no positive steps from US on disarmament, RIA reports (www.reuters.com)

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The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or New START, which caps the number of strategic nuclear warheads that the United States and Russia can deploy, and the deployment of land- and submarine-based missiles and bombers to deliver them, is due to expire on February 5, 2026.

It is the last remaining pillar of nuclear arms control between the world's two biggest nuclear powers.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Russia criticizing the US nuclear arms policy is rich, given how they have both loosened their requirements on when they would use nuclear weapons, and have repeatedly and consistently have used nuclear threats as a military strategy since their invasion of Ukraine.

I guess they have to take this position as the US at least has working armaments and not just rusted, unmaintained, weapons.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 days ago

I think you will find no nuclear threats have been made that weren’t responses to threat themselves.