00:01Russia and U.S. negotiators have agreed on the need to quickly launch new talks on nuclear arms control,
00:08following discussions held this week in the United Arab Emirates.
00:12The talks come as the New START Treaty, the last remaining nuclear arms pact between the two countries,
00:18has expired, ending more than 50 years of limits on the world's two largest nuclear arsenals.
00:24With the treaty's termination, there are now no caps on U.S. or Russian nuclear warheads or delivery systems.
00:32The agreements had limited each side to 1,550 deployed warheads and 700 missiles and bombers.
00:40Russia has said it is willing to continue observing those limits temporarily,
00:45but the United States has pushed instead for a new framework that includes China,
00:49whose nuclear arsenal is smaller but rapidly expanding.
00:52Beijing has rejected joining such talks.
00:56U.S. officials say China's nuclear build-up and lack of transparency make a bilateral deal insufficient,
01:03and has accused Beijing of covert nuclear testing.
01:06China denies the allegations and says it will not enter negotiations while its arsenal remains smaller than those of the U.S. and Russia.
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