MOSCOW (Sputnik) — US President Barack Obama has called for further reduction of US and Russian nuclear stockpiles, saying that the two countries should negotiate on the issue.
"Along with our military leadership, I continue to believe that our massive Cold War nuclear arsenal is poorly suited to today’s threats. The United States and Russia — which together hold more than 90 percent of the world’s nuclear weapons — should negotiate to reduce our stockpiles further," Obama said in an op-ed in The Washington Post Wednesday.
Russia and the United States are on track to meet the goals of The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), decreasing the number of deployed American and Russian nuclear warheads to the lowest levels since 1950, Obama added.The New START treaty was enacted in 2011 to reduce the total number of deployed US and Russian nuclear warheads to 1,550 and heavy bombers, equipped with nuclear warheads, to 700 by February 2018.
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