Trump Administration Leaning Against Extending New START Arms Treaty

Trump Administration Leaning Against Extending New START Arms Treaty
A Russian Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missile driving through Red Square in Moscow on May 9, 2009. DMITRY KOSTYUKOV/AFP/Getty Images
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Trump administration officials have expressed doubts that the 2010 New START arms-control treaty will be extended, because of concerns about Moscow’s failure to comply with that agreement as well as several other arms treaties.

The Pentagon, meanwhile, is moving ahead with designing a new ground-based missile to counter Russia’s illegal cruise missiles, which were built in violation of the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Force (INF) Treaty.

Bill Gertz
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