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US-Russia Nuclear Treaty Only First Step in Ensuring ‘Future Existence of Our Species’ Professor Kuznick says

1 February 2021|Sputnik|Mohamed Elmaazi

The total number of nuclear weapons that Russia and the US can possess was limited by New START, signed between the two countries in 2010. The treaty would have expired on 5 February 2021, had the Biden administration not agreed to extend it for another five years.

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Honduras Joining Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty A Success Amid ‘Insane’ US-Driven Arms Race, Expert Says

29 October 2020|Sputnik|Mohamed Elmaazi
Honduras is the fiftieth country to join the UN’s nuclear weapons ban treaty. The fact that this occurred amid intense pressure from the US government to undermine the treaty makes it both a “remarkable” and “ironic” development, according to the founder of American University’s Nuclear Studies Institute .

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