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- On Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law terminating an already defunct plutonium disposal agreement with the United States, approved earlier this month by Russian lawmakers as a formal "denunciation".
- The Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement, signed in 2000 and amended in 2010, committed Moscow and Washington to reduce plutonium and was effectively defunct after Russia suspended participation in 2016.
- Technically, the pact required converting 34 metric tonnes of plutonium each, and U.S. officials estimated it would eliminate material enough to produce around 17,000 nuclear weapons.
- The move comes as ties cool between Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump, who last week scrapped a peace summit and refused to reschedule without Russia signaling agreement.
- Against a backdrop of elevated nuclear posture, Western leaders have accused Russia of nuclear sabre-rattling since February 2022, after Vladimir Putin put his nuclear forces on high alert and signed a decree lowering the threshold to use nuclear weapons last year.
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Putin Terminates Plutonium Disposal Agreement with US
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The Department of Energy of the United States of America (USA) is offering 19 tons of plutonium for military use to companies that develop advanced nuclear fuel. According to the Financial Times, the...
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on Monday terminating an already defunct agreement with the United States on plutonium utilization.
On Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law that put an end to a de facto obsolete agreement between Russia and the United States on plutonium reprocessing, aimed at preventing both sides from manufacturing more nuclear weapons. The agreement on the management and treatment of plutonium (PMDA), signed in 2000 and modified in 2010, committed both countries to reprocessing their stocks of plutonium from the Cold War to convert it into…
Vladimir Putin has signed a law formally terminating a plutonium treaty between Russia and the United States. The agreement was intended to limit the countries' ability to produce more nuclear weapons. The announcement comes as relations between the presidents have become increasingly tense.
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