US President Donald Trump on Sunday (October 5) expressed his support to the recent proposal of Russian President Vladimir Putin to voluntarily maintain the limits of deployed strategic nuclear weapons.
Last month, Putin suggested that Russia continued to comply with CAPS established as part of the 2010 new contract, which sets the limits of the two largest nuclear arsenals in the world if the US has agreed to follow. The new start agreement will be expired in February 2026.
Trump commented on the proposal and said “sounds like a good idea”, signals a potential interest in the American interest in negotiating an agreement on tracking.
The new start agreement, signed in 2010, was the cornerstone of nuclear weapons control between the US and Russia, limiting the strategic heads to 1,550 and the delivery vehicles to 800.
Trump’s openness to Putina’s voluntary proposal comes in the middle of the ongoing debates on the future of weapons control in the US and the strategic balance in Europe and Asia.
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