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The Guardian: Trump denounced nuclear arms treaty in phone call with Putin – sources

Published Feb. 10, 2017 at 9:28 am

A Russian Navy member stands guard on the deck of the Pyotr Velikiy (Peter the Great) Russian nuclear-powered missile cruiser docked in the Cypriot port of Limassol, on February 12, 2014.

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Donald Trump has told Vladimir Putin he does not want to renew a 2010 arms control treaty that limits the number of strategic nuclear weapons the US and Russia can deploy.

Trump angrily denounced the New Start Treaty in a Jan. 28 phone call to the Russian leader, according to sources briefed on the call. Reuters, which first reported Trump’s remarks, said the new US president also had to pause the hour long call to ask what the New Start Treaty was.