Russia suspends nuclear missile treaty in tit-for-tat with US 0 SHARES Share it! Share TweetBy Agence France-PresseRussia vowed Saturday to develop “new types of weapons” as it suspended a Cold War-era nuclear missile treaty with the United States, which pulled back from the pact a day earlier, raising the spectre of a new arms race. On Friday, Trump said Washington would start a process to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) agreement within six months. NATO has said that US allies “fully support” its withdrawal from the pact, and agreed that Russia’s 9M729 ground-launched cruise missile systems violates the treaty. Lavrov at Saturday’s meeting voiced concerns that Washington’s decision to withdraw from the INF could jeopardise the extension of the New START treaty.

Source: Manila Bulletin February 02, 2019 23:37 UTC