{"id":4318,"date":"2021-01-28T12:46:43","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T12:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4318"},"modified":"2021-01-28T12:46:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T12:46:43","slug":"putin-and-biden-confirm-extension-of-new-start-treaty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4318","title":{"rendered":"Putin and Biden confirm extension of New START treaty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Joe Biden agreed Tuesday to extend the New START nuclear nonproliferation treaty<\/a>, which is due to expire next month, according to Kremlin<\/a> and White House<\/a> summaries of a phone call between the leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey discussed both countries\u2019 willingness to extend New START for five years, agreeing to have their teams work urgently to complete the extension by February 5,\u201d the White House said.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Formally called the \u201cNew Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty,\u201d the agreement limits Washington and Moscow\u2019s deployed nuclear weapons to 1,550 each. It was signed in 2010, entered force on February 5, 2011 and was set to expire on its 10th anniversary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New START is the last remaining nonproliferation agreement between the former Cold War superpower rivals, after another key nuclear accord, the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, expired in August 2019.”\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/putin-and-biden-confirm-extension-of-new-start-treaty\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Joe Biden agreed Tuesday to extend the New START nuclear nonproliferation treaty, which is due to expire next month, according to Kremlin and White House summaries of a phone call between the leaders.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey discussed both countries\u2019 willingness to extend New START for five years, agreeing to have their teams work urgently to complete the extension by February 5,\u201d the White House said.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Formally called the \u201cNew Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty,\u201d the agreement limits Washington and Moscow\u2019s deployed nuclear weapons to 1,550 each. It was signed in 2010, entered force on February 5, 2011 and was set to expire on its 10th anniversary.<\/p>\n

New START is the last remaining nonproliferation agreement between the former Cold War superpower rivals, after another key nuclear accord, the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, expired in August 2019.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[272,355,314,780,994,316,315],"class_list":["post-4318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-joe-biden","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-putin","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4319,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4318\/revisions\/4319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}