Trump says Putin's nuclear arms proposal ‘sounds like a good idea’

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Sunday (Oct 5) said Russian President Vladimir Putin’s offer to voluntarily maintain limits on deployed strategic nuclear weapons “sounds like a good idea”. Putin last month proposed keeping voluntary caps on the size of the world’s two largest nuclear arsenals, as set by the 2010 New START treaty, if Washington agreed to do the same. Russia’s UN ambassador Vassily Nebenzia said last week that Moscow was still waiting for a formal response from Washington to Putin’s offer to maintain the voluntary limits on deployed strategic weapons once the treaty lapses.