US Updates Data on Nuclear Arsenal, Goads Kremlin Over Secrecy
- Diplomats say 1,419 deployed warheads are within treaty limits
- Transparency even more urgent in times of tension, US said
Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin in June 2021.
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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.