俄罗斯总统普京周四告诉军工复合体的数字，他准备无条件延长限制俄罗斯和美国核储备的双边协议，但声称美国没有回应他的提议。
普京对俄罗斯国防部成员和国防工业领导人发表讲话，批评美国退出其他主要武器条约，包括2002年的《反弹道导弹条约》和今年8月的《中程核力量条约》。现在，另一项重要协议即将达成——新的《削减战略武器条约》。
这项协议是一项已有几十年历史的协议的最新版本，该协议旨在减少美国和俄罗斯维持的核武器和平台数量，并将于2021年2月到期。普京辩称，“我们所有延长该协议的提议都已摆在桌面上”，但“迄今为止，我们尚未收到合作伙伴的任何回应。”
他补充说:“在这方面，我想重申俄罗斯联邦的立场:俄罗斯准备在今年年底之前，立即、尽快、不带任何先决条件地延长《削减战略武器条约》。“因此，对于我们的立场，不会有进一步的双重、三重解释，我正式这样说。”
1991年，也就是苏联解体前几个月，乔治·布什总统和苏联总统米哈伊尔·戈尔巴乔夫签署了第一个裁武条约。这一里程碑式的条约是一系列旨在逆转两个超级大国的军备竞赛在那之前，这在21世纪下半叶占据了大部分时间。
随着美国退出反导条约和中程核力量条约，新裁武条约是两国之间最后一项涉及战略武器的重大双边协议。唐纳德·特朗普总统表示，除非中国也加入进来，否则对续签协议相对漠不关心。
“俄罗斯希望就在两周前达成协议。俄罗斯非常希望在军备控制和核问题上达成协议，这是明智的，我们也是如此，”特朗普周二在伦敦举行的北约西方军事联盟峰会场外表示。“我们认为这将是一件好事，我们也一定会把中国带进来，你知道的。我们可能稍后会带他们进来，也可能现在就带他们进来，但俄罗斯和我们都很想做些什么，这将是一件很棒的事情。”
北京已经反复说过了永远不会加入像《中程核力量条约》或《新裁武条约》这样的莫斯科-华盛顿不扩散条约，如中国——以及所有其他核大国加在一起——拥有的核武器远远少于俄罗斯，美国外交部军控司司长傅聪在上个月的2019年莫斯科不扩散会议上表示，“美俄之间的新裁武条约应该延长。”
傅莹说:“我们敦促两个核超级大国进一步削减部署和储存的核武器，为其他核武器国家参与削减核武器谈判创造条件。”。
普京推动延长《新裁武条约》之际，他的国家发展了一个尖端武器库，其中包括他声称能够摧毁所有现有防御的具有核能力的高超音速武器。五角大楼发言人空军中校·罗伯特·卡弗讲述新闻周刊上个月美国竞争对手将高超音速技术武器化“创造了一种我们必须解决的战斗不对称”
RUSSIA IS 'READY TO IMMEDIATELY' EXTEND NUCLEAR ARMS LIMIT TREATY, SAYS U.S. IS NOT ANSWERING
Russian President Vladimir Putin told military-industrial complex figures Thursday that he was prepared to extend a bilateral pact limiting the nuclear stockpiles of Russia and the United States without preconditions, but claimed the United States has not responded to his offers.
Speaking to members of Russia's Defense Ministry and defense industry leaders, Putin criticized the U.S.' withdrawal from other major arms pacts, including the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty in 2002 and the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty this past August. Now another major agreement was on the line—the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
This deal is the latest edition of a decades-old arrangement reducing the number of nuclear weapons and platforms maintained by the U.S. and Russia and set to expire in February 2021. Putin argued that "all our proposals to extend this agreement are on the table," but "so far, we have not received any reaction from partners."
"In this regard, I want to reaffirm the position of the Russian Federation: Russia is ready to immediately, as soon as possible, before the end of this year, without any preconditions, extend the START Treaty," he added. "So that there will be no further double, triple interpretation regarding our position, I say this officially."
The first START was signed by President George H. W. Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991, just months before the collapse of the Soviet Union. The landmark treaty was the last in a series of deals designed to reverse the two superpowers' arms race that dominated much of the latter half of the 21st century up until that point.
With the U.S. exit from the ABM and INF Treaties, the New START deal was among the last major bilateral accord between the two countries involving strategic weapons. President Donald Trump has expressed relative indifference in renewing the deal, unless China too joined along.
"Russia wants to make a deal as recently as like two weeks ago. Russia wants to make a deal very much on arms control and nuclear, and that's smart, and so do we," Trump said Tuesday during on the sidelines of a NATO Western military alliance summit in London. "We think it would be a good thing and we'll also certainly bring in, as you know, China. We may bring them in later, or we may bring them in now, but Russia wants to do something badly and so do we, it would be a great thing to do."
Beijing has repeatedly said it would never join such Moscow-Washington non-proliferation treaties as the INF or New START as China—along with every other nuclear power combined—has far less nuclear weapons than Russia and the U.S. Chinese Foreign Ministry Department of Arms Control Director-General Fu Cong said at last month's 2019 Moscow Non-Proliferation Conference that "the New START between the U.S. and Russia should be extended."
"We urge the two nuclear superpowers to further reduce their nuclear weapons, both deployed and in stockpile, so as to create conditions for other nuclear-weapon states to participate in nuclear arms reduction negotiations," Fu said.
Putin's push to extend New START came as his country developed a cutting-edge arsenal that included nuclear-capable hypersonic weapons he claimed could thwart all existing defenses. Pentagon spokesperson Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Robert Carver told Newsweek last monththat the weaponization of hypersonic technology by U.S. competitors "has created a warfighting asymmetry that we must address."
