SpaceWar.com reports: “The United States on Friday urged three-way talks with Russia and China to set new limits on nuclear weapons, as it accused Beijing of conducting secret nuclear tests and dramatically swelling its arsenal.
A day after the expiration of New START — the last treaty between top nuclear powers Washington and Moscow — Beijing reiterated that it did not plan to join disarmament negotiations ‘at this stage’.
Russia meanwhile suggested other nuclear-armed states such as Britain and France should be included in any talks.
‘Arms control can no longer be a bilateral issue between the United States and Russia,’ US Secretary of State Marco Rubio wrote in an online essay.
‘Other countries have a responsibility to help ensure strategic stability, none more so than China.’…”
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