NATO on Thursday urged "responsibility and restraint" as it comes to an end New START treaty, which sets limits on nuclear weapons, between the United States and Russia, raising concerns about a new arms race.
"Self-restraint and responsibility in the nuclear field are essential for global security," an official from the US-led military alliance, on condition of anonymity, said, launching Al Arabiya from AFP (5/2).
The official further said that Russia and China were both increasing their nuclear capabilities and NATO "will continue to take the necessary steps" to ensure their own defense.
"Russia's irresponsible nuclear rhetoric and coercive nuclear signals demonstrate a strategic posture of intimidation," the official said.
Meanwhile, "China continues to rapidly expand and diversify its nuclear arsenal with more warheads and a large number of sophisticated delivery systems," he added.
Separately, the Kremlin on Thursday said it regretted the end of the last treaty governing Russian and US nuclear weapons and called it a negative step.
Meanwhile, Washington says any new nuclear deal must include China, but international efforts to push Beijing into new talks have so far failed.
It is known that the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), which expires on February 5, 2026, was signed on April 8, 2010 in Prague by the United States and Russia and came into force on February 5, 2011, quoted from Anadolu.
The treaty replaces the 1991 START I agreement, which expired in December 2009, and replaces the 2002 Strategic Offensive Reductions (SORT) Treaty, which expired when New START came into force, according to the US-based Arms Control Association.
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