Policy shift aimed at pressing Moscow, Beijing to reverse rejections of US calls for arsenal limitation talks
The US may have to deploy more strategic nuclear weapons to deter growing threats. Photograph: Oliver Contreras/The New York TimesPranay Vaddi, a US national security council arms control official, made his comments in a speech on “a more competitive approach” to arms control that outlined a policy shift aimed at pressing Moscow and Beijing to reverse rejections of US calls for arsenal limitation talks.
The US observes a limit of 1,550 deployed strategic nuclear warheads set in the 2010 New START treaty with Russia even though Moscow “suspended” its participation last year over US support for But, he said, Russia, China and North Korea “are all expanding and diversifying their nuclear arsenals at a breakneck pace, showing little or no interest in arms control”.
US nuclear doctrine, Mr Vaddi said, reserves nuclear weapons to deterring attacks by adversaries “on us and our allies and partners,” while remaining committed with Britain and France to “transparency” on nuclear policies and forces.
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