Trump wants to expand the U.S. nuclear Arsenal
The US President Donald trump has promised to expand the nuclear Arsenal of the country.
About it writes Reuters.
According to the American leader, the United States has lagged behind in this matter, and he intends to ensure that the United States was “on top”.
As transfers RIA Novosti news Agency, a White house spokesman Sean Spicer on regular media briefing on 23 February said that “the US does not intend to concede their superiority in the nuclear field to anyone”.
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The Kremlin responded to the idea of trump to remove Russia from sanctions in exchange for reductions in nuclear Arsenal
We will remind that earlier it became known the first details of a telephone conversation between Donald trump and Vladimir Putin. During the conversation, the US President criticized the Treaty on nuclear disarmament, calling it beneficial only to Russia.
This writes Reuters, citing two sources in the presidential administration and a former us official familiar with the contents of a telephone conversation.
Sources said that when, during the conversation, Putin raised the question of a possible extension of the contract from 2010, known as start-3, tramp paused and turned to his aides with the question, what kind of a contract. In the end, trump said Putin that the agreement was one of the failed transactions concluded by the Obama administration.
The white house declined to comment. Also failed to get a comment from the Kremlin.
Recall that during the election debates in 2016, trump said that Russia has “outsmarted” the United States with the Treaty. Trump called wrong that the Treaty allowed Russia to continue to produce nuclear warheads, while the United States does not.