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Russia Offers To Extend Nuclear Arms Limits With US By One Year

Putin said he made the offer to prevent 'a strategic arms race' with Washington (Credit: AFP)

Russia offered Monday to keep abiding by the nuclear warhead limits in a key treaty with the United States once it expires in February, but only for one year and if Washington did the same.

The New START treaty, signed in 2010, is the last remaining nuclear arms reduction agreement between the world's top two atomic powers and limits the number of nuclear warheads each side can deploy.

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