[Global Times Comprehensive Report] Russian Satellite Network said on the 29th that the US "Politics" website disclosed that the US Trump administration requested the Pentagon to make an assessment. After the US-Russia "New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty" expires in February next year, the US military needs more It will take a long time to deploy nuclear weapons stocks (including actual deployment of nuclear warheads, reserve response nuclear warheads, and non-active stock nuclear warheads) to bombers and ballistic missile submarines.
The assessment aims to determine "if Russia expands its nuclear arsenal, how long will it take for US nuclear forces to deploy nuclear weapons stocks on long-range strategic bombers, ballistic missile submarines, and land-based fixed intercontinental ballistic missiles."
An anonymous source said that the U.S. government's request for the Pentagon to make an assessment is part of a strategy to pressure Russia, with the aim of revising the "New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty" before the U.S. presidential election.
The "Politics" website stated that the Trump administration made the request to emphasize that "if Russia does not follow the requirements of the United States, then Washington will seriously consider invalidating the treaty."
A source said: "This clearly shows that the Trump administration is trying to create stimulus to'incentive' Russia to sit down and negotiate."