Nuclear weapons – nuclear contacts between the United States and the Russian Federation ceased after the annexation of Crimea – UNIAN

Meetings between US and Russian militaries on nuclear weapons that began in the 1990s were suspended by Washington after Russia annexed Ukrainian Crimea in 2014, inspections to comply with the terms of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty were suspended with the onset of the COVID pandemic, and then Russia abandoned renew them. The former head of the nuclear security program between the United States and Russia, William Moon, spoke about this in an interview with Radio Liberty.

According to him, by the mid-1990s, relations between Moscow and Washington began to deteriorate due to NATO expansion to the east and everything…