The Kremlin warned on Tuesday, February 3rd that the world was heading into a “dangerous” moment as the last U.S.-Russia nuclear treaty is set to expire this week.
New START, the last nuclear treaty between Washington and Moscow after decades of agreements dating back to the Cold War, is set to expire on Thursday, and with it restrictions on the two top nuclear powers.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said:
In just a few days, the world will be in a more dangerous position than it has ever been before.
The Kremlin, which has offered a one-year extension of the treaty, said “we still haven’t received a response from the Americans to this initiative.”
If the treaty is not extended, the world’s top two nuclear powers would be left for the first time without a fundamental document that would limit and control these arsenals.
