U.S. Updates Data On Its Nuclear Arsenal In A Bid To Pressure Russia To Do The Same

Bloomberg: US Updates Data on Nuclear Arsenal, Goads Kremlin Over Secrecy 

(Bloomberg) -- The Biden administration updated the status of its deployed nuclear forces while taking a dig at Russian opacity two months after the Kremlin left a landmark arms-control treaty. 

The US will continue a “tradition of transparency despite Russia’s purported suspension of New START,” the State Department said in a statement Monday, referring to the treaty signed in 2010 that limited the number of nuclear warheads the two nations can deploy at any one time. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin suspended participation in the treaty on Feb. 21, eliminating inspections and data exchanges needed to verify commitments under the last accord between the two powers that restricted their nuclear arsenals. US President Joe Biden called the decision a “big mistake.”  

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WNU Editor: After last year's attack on a base that housed part of Russia's nuclear strategic forces .... Blasts Rock Two Major Air Bases Deep Inside Russia. Ukraine Drone Strike Suspected (December 5, 2023), and coupled with the fact that Russia now sees itself in an undeclared war against the U.S., there is no way that Russia is going to share any data with the US in regards to its military. 

For all intents and purposes. U.S. - Russian nuclear talks and arms control is now dead, and will be for years to come. 

U.S. Updates Data On Its Nuclear Arsenal In A Bid To Pressure Russia To Do The Same  

Pressing Russia, US shares nuclear warhead data under treaty -- AFP 

U.S. releases nuclear warhead stats, presses Russia on New START Treaty -- UPI  

US releases nuclear warhead data in bid to pressure Russia -- Al Jazeera

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