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- Russian President has said that Russia is prepared to suspend the NEW START treaty with the U.S.He said that the US has showed no interest in conducting talks on extending the New START treaty.
- The New START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) is a nuclear arms reduction treaty between the United States and the Russian Federation.It was signed in 2010.
- New START replaced the 1991 START I treaty which expired in 2009 and superseded the 2002 Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) which was terminated when New START treaty entered into force.
- The treaty limits the US and Russia to possess a maximum of 1,550 deployed nuclear warheads and 700 deployed missiles and bombers well below Cold War caps.
- The duration of the treaty is ten years and can be extended for a period of no more than five years at a time.It includes a standard withdrawal clause like most arms control agreements.
- If this treaty is withdrawn then it will be the second nuclear weapons treaty to collapse under the leadership of current US President.
- Recently,Russia had officially suspended it’s participation in the intermediate Range Nuclear Forces(INF) on the grounds that US have violated the INF treaty.The US had already withdrawn from the treaty claiming that Russia had secretly developed a missile that violated the INF.
- The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces(INF) Treaty came into force in 1988.It banned both the Soviet Union(Russia) and the US from developing and deploying land-based cruise and ballistic missiles with ranges between 500 and 5,500 km.However,treaty did not apply to air-or sea-launched missiles.
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