Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
April 2020 - United States Special Weapons News
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- Pentagon Could Award Contract for Next Generation of ICBMs Before September Sputnik 17 Apr 2020 -- Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Will Roper told reporters earlier this week that the contract for the US' next generation of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) could be awarded even earlier than September, in spite of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Pompeo Told Lavrov Any Future Arms Control Talks Must Include China - State Department Sputnik 17 Apr 2020 -- Russia and the United States are parties to the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), which is set to expire in 2021. It is the last remaining arms control treaty in force between Russia and the United States after the collapse of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.
- Dialogue With US on Hypersonic Weapons Impossible Without Discussing Antimissile Systems - Moscow Sputnik 17 Apr 2020 -- Russia cannot have a dialogue with the US on new Russian hypersonic weapons without a thorough discussion of US hypersonic projects, its plans to create a global anti-missile system and to deploy weapons in space, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told Sputnik on Friday, stressing that this was an indisputable precondition of the dialogue.
- US Likely to Soon Decide Not to Extend New START Treaty - Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sputnik 16 Apr 2020 -- The New START is the last remaining arms control treaty in force between Russia and the United States after the collapse of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.
- Submission to Congress of the Executive Summary of the Report on Adherence to and Compliance with Arms Control, Nonproliferation, and Disarmament Agreements and Commitments (Compliance Report) Dept. of State 15 Apr 2020 -- The Executive Summary of the 2020 Report on Adherence to and Compliance with Arms Control, Nonproliferation, and Disarmament Agreements and Commitments, otherwise known as the Compliance Report, has been submitted to Congress.
- US expresses interest in discussing arms control, Russia ready to go ahead Press TV 14 Apr 2020 -- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says the United States has expressed interest in holding talks with Russia about arms control, months after Washington pulled out of a missile treaty with Moscow.
- US Reportedly Modernized Nuclear Weapon in Germany in Secret Operation in 2019 Sputnik 11 Apr 2020 -- In 2010, the Bundestag voted to remove US nuclear bombs from Germany. In 2017, the German government's deputy spokeswoman, Ulrike Demmer, advocated nuclear weapons on the country's territory, saying that there "remains a need for nuclear deterrence".
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