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The US administration is willing to put nuclear weapons into combat in order to pressure Russia in negotiations to reach new agreements on the reduction of strategic offensive weapons. Washington notes that Moscow is deliberately delaying the negotiations.
It is informed by Politico.
“The Trump administration has asked the military to assess how quickly they can remove nuclear weapons from storage and load them onto bombers and submarines if the arms control treaty with Russia expires in February,” he said.
The United States points out that Russia has the best conditions for Moscow, which the Joe Biden administration will offer if it wins the presidential election.
Recall that the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START III) between the United States and Russia entered into force in February 2011. Its action is scheduled for a period of ten years, until February 2021. After that, the parties must arrive to an agreement or expand existing agreements, or conclude new ones.
Furthermore, RBC-Ukraine previously wrote that the Special Representative of the President of the United States for Arms Control, Marshall Billingsley, said that the American side had offered to Russia to prepare a memorandum on arms that does not require ratification.
Furthermore, the United States insists on involving China in negotiations on nuclear weapons control, but Beijing has so far rejected this possibility.
