No big deal if US refuses to extend nuclear warhead limits: Putin

President Vladimir Putin on Friday said Russia was developing new strategic weapons and it would not be critical for Moscow if the US declined to extend the warhead limits set out in a nuclear arms treaty that expired next year.

He said it would, however, be a shame if nothing remained of the arms control framework between the two countries, which had by far the world’s biggest nuclear arsenals. He said an arms race was already in progress.

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