Q. The Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement (PMDA), recently in news is an international pact between:

[A] India and Russia

[B] Russia and the United States

[C] United States and China

[D] Russia and China

Answer: B
Notes:

Explanation:

  • The PMDA, signed in 2000, commits Russia and the United States to each irreversibly dispose of at least 34 metric tons of weapons-grade plutonium.
  • In 2016, Russia suspended implementation citing U.S. sanctions. Recently, Russia’s lower house approved withdrawal from the agreement.

Source- TH

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