Washington, Feb 20 (UNI) US President Donald Trump said that he had successfully talked to Russian President Vladimir Putin about denuclearisation and believed in success.
"I was dealing with President Putin very successfully on denuclearization. We were talking about it very seriously. And then COVID came, and lots of things came. And we had also talked to China about it... I spoke to [Chinese] President Xi [Jinping] about it very successfully. I think we were going to denuclearize. We had to get the smaller nuclear powers, of which there are four, three, maybe, but four, probably, to do something," Trump said during a tech summit in Miami.
Trump said that it is necessary to prevent a nuclear conflict from happening, as it would be "500 times" worse than Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
On November 19, Putin signed a decree approving an updated nuclear doctrine. The document stipulates that the use of nuclear weapons is a measure of last resort to protect the country's sovereignty. The doctrine expands the category of states and military alliances subject to nuclear deterrence and expands the list of reasons for Russia to use nuclear weapons, which are: the use of nuclear or other types of weapons of mass destruction against Russia or its allies; aggression against Russia or Belarus that involves conventional weapons and poses a critical threat to their sovereignty. Aggression against Russia by a non-nuclear state with support of a nuclear-weapon state will be considered a joint attack.
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