JAKARTA - The Kremlin's Russian Presidential Palace indicated the planned Golden Dome anti-missile defense system aka President Donald Trump's Gold Dome could encourage the resumption of contacts between Moscow and Washington about future nuclear weapons control.
When asked about Trump's announcement of a design choice for the $175 billion Golden Dome missile defense shield, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said it was United States sovereignty.
The Golden Dome inspired by Israel's ground-based Iron Dome defense shielding is an ambitious project aimed at blocking threats from China and Russia, which the United States views as its two biggest geopolitical competitors.
Peskov, when asked if Russia saw the project as a threat to Russia's nuclear equality with the United States, said there were no details about the US project.
"In the near future, the series of events require the resumption of contact on issues of strategic stability," Peskov said.
Russia and the United States, which have so far been the biggest nuclear power, have both expressed regret about the disintegration of arms control agreements seeking to slow down arms race and reduce the risk of nuclear war.
The US blamed Russia for the collapse of the agreement such as the 1972 Anti-ballistic Missile Agreement and the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Power Treaty (INF).
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The US officially withdrew from the INF Agreement in 2019, citing Russian offenses Moscow denies. The US withdrew from the ABM agreement in 2002.
"Now the legal framework in this area has been destroyed, and its validity period has ended, or intentionally, say, a number of documents no longer apply, this base must be re-created both for the benefit of our two countries and for the benefit of security across the planet," Peskov said.
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