The US said that Moscow had not made any disclosures in March and was “not implementing other key provisions of the treaty” but did not elaborate. It caps the number of strategic nuclear warheads that the US and Russia can deploy, as well as the deployment of land and submarine-based missiles and the bombers to deliver them.īut in February this year, amid a sharp deterioration in relations since Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin said he was suspending Russia’s participation in the agreement. The new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty came into force in 2011 and was extended for a further five years in 2021. “The United States continues to view transparency among nuclear weapon states as extremely valuable for reducing the likelihood of misperception, miscalculation, and costly arms competitions,” a spokesperson said in a statement on Tuesday. The US Department of State said it was releasing the information publicly as part of its commitments under the New START Treaty, appearing to reverse an earlier decision not to share the data. The United States has announced it has 1,419 deployed nuclear warheads in its arsenal, as it urged Russia to release its data.
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