Kremlin says it is still waiting for U.S. response to Putin’s nuclear treaty offer
MOSCOW, Jan 29 (Reuters) – Russia is still waiting for the United States to respond to President Vladimir Putin’s proposal to unofficially extend by one year the terms of the last remaining nuclear arms treaty between the two countries, the Kremlin said on Thursday.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that the expiration of the New START treaty on February 5 could lead to a serious gap in the legal framework regulating nuclear weapons.
New START, signed by presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev in 2010, places limits on the strategic weapons each side can use to target the other’s critical political and military centers in the event of a nuclear war.
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The number of strategic warheads deployed is limited to 1,550 on each side, and the number of land- or submarine-launched missiles and bombers to deploy them is no more than 700.
(Reporting by Dmitry Antonov, Editing by Andrew Osborn)
