“This bill will not allow financing the extension of the new START Treaty until the president confirms to Congress that Russia agreed to a controlled reduction of its stockpiles of tactical nuclear weapons and the inclusion of its new systems in the framework of the New START Treaty,” said Cheney. .
The document, submitted by politicians, is entitled “Termination of Russian nuclear aggression”.
At the same time, the authors of the bill believe that the United States should not agree to the extension of the START treaty after the existing term expires, that is, in 2021, if Washington does not observe “a radical improvement in a deeply erroneous deal agreed by the administration of former US President Barak Obama.
Earlier, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said that following the possible termination of the Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles, it is likely that the Treaty on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms will be terminated.