Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday said that Moscow would suspend its participation in the New START treaty, the last remaining nuclear accord between Russia and the United States.
“Before resuming the discussion about this treaty, we must first understand what do such countries of the North Atlantic alliance as France and Great Britain aspire to? And how will we take their strategic (nuclear) arsenals into account,” Putin said.
The New START treaty was signed in Prague in 2010 and came into force the following year. It was extended in 2021 for five more years just after U.S. President Joe Biden took office.
The treaty 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.
Russia has the largest stockpile of nuclear weapons in the world, with close to 6,000 warheads, according to experts. Together, Russia and the U.S. hold around 90 per cent of the world’s nuclear warheads.
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