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'Not Interested': Analysts Sceptical About US, Russia Nuclear Talks

A mushroom cloud forming after a July 1946 atomic bomb test by the US military on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean (Credit: AFP)

The United States and Russia have pledged their readiness to resume nuclear disarmament talks after years of confrontation, but analysts are sceptical that Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin can or even want to reach a breakthrough new agreement.

Days after returning to the White House for a second term, Trump said he would like to see "denuclearisation" and called for China to join the talks between Russia and the United States, the world's two biggest nuclear powers.

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