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ADVERTISEMENTBut a top defense ministry official, Major-General Yevgeny Ilyin, told the lower house, or Duma, that Russia would continue to observe agreed restrictions on nuclear delivery systems – meaning missiles and strategic bomber planes. “I do not believe that the decision to suspend the New START Treaty brings us closer to nuclear war,” he said, in comments cited by the Interfax news agency. Treaty limitsThe 2010 New START treaty limits each country’s deployed nuclear warheads to 1,550 – a level Russia has also said it will continue to observe – and deployed missiles and heavy bombers to 700. According to the U.S. State Department, the two sides have exchanged more than 25,000 notifications since the treaty came into force in 2011. Russia now demands that British and French nuclear weapons targeted against Russia be included in the arms control framework, a position seen as a non-starter for Washington after over half a century of bilateral nuclear treaties with Moscow.
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