Russia open to new nuclear talks as treaty lapses
Russia says it still wants dialogue with the United States on limiting nuclear weapons, even as their last major arms control treaty, New START, expires without a replacement. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow regretted the end of the treaty but remained prepared to talk if Washington gave a constructive response to President Vladimir Putin’s proposal to keep key limits for one more year. The plan would see both sides continue to respect caps on deployed strategic warheads, missiles and launchers even though the full treaty can no longer be legally extended. New START, signed in 2010 by then presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev, was the final accord in a series of US Russia nuclear arms agreements dating back over 50 years to the Cold War. Besides capping arsenals, it allowed on site inspections that experts say built trust […]
