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Trump Wants Denuclearization Talks With Russia and China
The Statesman
|February 15, 2025
Russia Suspended Its Participation In The New START Treaty During The Biden Administration
President Donald Trump said Thursday that he wants to restart nuclear arms control talks with Russia and China and that eventually he hopes all three countries could agree to cut their massive defense budgets in half.
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump lamented the hundreds of billions of dollars being invested in rebuilding the nation's nuclear deterrent and said he hopes to gain commitments from the U.S. adversaries to cut their own spending.
This story is from the February 15, 2025 edition of The Statesman.
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