The Biden administration views the New START Treaty clinched with Russia this week as the beginning of engagement on strategic issues and urges China to join the effort to reduce nuclear arms stockpiles, a US envoy has said.
The United States and Russia announced on Wednesday they had extended the New START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) agreement for five years, preserving the last treaty limiting deployments of the world’s two largest strategic nuclear arsenals.
Robert Wood, US ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, in a speech on Thursday to the UN-sponsored Conference on Disarmament called for a new arms control drive that “covers more weapons, and eventually more countries”.