Published: 14th Jun, 2019
Russian President Vladimir Putin annaounced that their country is prepared to suspend the NEW START treaty with the U.S.A. because USA has showed no genuine interest in conducting talks on extending the New START treaty which caps the number of nuclear warheads well below Cold War limits.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin annaounced that their country is prepared to suspend the NEW START treaty with the U.S.A. because USA has showed no genuine interest in conducting talks on extending the New START treaty which caps the number of nuclear warheads well below Cold War limits.
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- Putin also said that the potential implications of letting New START treaty expire would be huge, suggesting its demise could fuel a nuclear arms race.
- Along with this, Russia also warned global catastrophe if Washington keeps dismantling a global arms control regime.
- Together with Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty, New START is considered a centrepiece of superpower arms control.
New START Treaty
- The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) was signed in April, 2010 in Prague by Russia and the USA and entered into force in February 2011.
- It replaced the 1991 START I treaty, which expired December 2009, and superseded the 2002 Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT), which terminated when New START entered into force.
- It continues the bipartisan process of verifiably reducing USA and Russian strategic nuclear arsenals begun by former Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.
- It is the first verifiable USA-Russian nuclear arms control treaty to take effect since START I in 1994.
- It does not limit the number of non-deployed ICBMs and SLBMs, but it does monitor them and provide for continuous information on their locations and on-site inspections to confirm that they are not added to the deployed force.
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