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President Trump wants talks with Russia and China on nuclear weapons

Politiko 2025-02-14 09:02:56

President Trump wants talks with Russia and China on nuclear weapons

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he wants to restart nuclear arms control talks with Russia and China and that eventually he hopes the three countries can agree to halve their massive defense budgets.

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, President Trump lamented the hundreds of billions of dollars being invested in rebuilding the country's nuclear deterrent capabilities and said he hopes to get commitments from the United States' adversaries to cut their spending.

"There's no reason for us to be making new nuclear weapons, we already have so many," President Trump said. "It could destroy the world 50 times, 100 times. And here we are making new nuclear weapons, and they are making nuclear weapons."

"We're all spending a lot of money that we could be spending on other things that are actually, hopefully, much more productive," President Trump said.

While the United States and Russia maintain massive stockpiles of weapons since the Cold War, President Trump predicted that China would achieve this nuclear destruction capacity "within five or six years."

He said that if the weapons were ever used, "it would probably lead to complete extinction."

President Trump said he would consider engaging in nuclear talks with these two countries once we "fix everything" in the Middle East and Ukraine.

"One of the first meetings I want to have is with President Xi of China, President Putin of Russia. And I want to say, 'let's cut our military budget in half.' And we can do that. And I think we'll be able to do it."

President Trump in his first term tried unsuccessfully to bring China into talks on reducing nuclear weapons, as the United States and Russia were negotiating an extension of a pact known as the New START Treaty. Russia suspended its participation in the treaty during former President Biden's administration, as the United States and Russia pursued massive programs to extend the life of their Cold War-era nuclear arsenals or replace them with new weapons./ VOA

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