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China urges largest nuclear states to negotiate a 'no-first-use' treaty (www.reuters.com)

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"Nuclear-weapon states should negotiate and conclude a treaty on no-first-use of nuclear weapons against each other or make a political statement in this regard," Sun said.

China and India are currently the only two nuclear powers to formally maintain a no first use policy. Russia and the United States have the world's biggest nuclear arsenals.

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[–] BartsBigBugBag@lemmy.tf 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wow great info, thanks so much for doing all that legwork! It makes sense that Putin would put less stock into the policy than did his predecessors, because while the leaked Soviet archives show the USSR was genuinely terrified of nuclear war and mostly built up in response to US expansion of nuclear programs, I feel like Putin sees it more as a tool for intimidation.

[–] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago

The post-USSR Russian Federation and Yeltsin, a US tool ironically enough and traitor to the USSR, were the ones who revoked Russia's no-first-use nuclear policy from 1993 through 1997.