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Trump asks military to assess how quickly nuclear weapons could be pulled from storage and loaded onto bombers and submarines should arms control treaty with Russia expire in February 2021
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] - The request is part of a strategy to pressure Moscow into renegotiating the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) before the US presidential election
- The Trump administration reportedly believes that making the request outlines how serious they are about letting the agreement lapse
- Trump’s team is said to be leery that Moscow is attempting to prolong the talks beyond the November vote in the hope that Democratic nominee Joe Biden wins
Russia joins China inn preferring Gropey Joe? How utterly ironic.
- They believe Biden's New START pledge renewal offers more beneficial terms
- The assessment will determine how long it would take to load nuclear weapons currently in reserve onto long-range bombers, submarines and into silos
- Signed in 2010, the New START treaty limits the US and Russia to no more than 1,550 deployed nuclear warheads and 700 deployed missiles and bombers
- The deal is set to expire on February 5, 2021 if the two nations fail to agree
Posted by: Skidmark 2020-09-29 |
