U.S. Rejects START Treaty, Citing China’s Nuclear Breakout and Russia’s Violations

by Emmitt Barry, Worthy News Washington D.C. Bureau Chief(Worthy News) – The Trump administration announced it will no longer abide by the expired New START nuclear arms agreement, arguing the treaty fails to restrain Russia’s expanding arsenal and excludes China’s rapidly growing nuclear forces, according to a senior State Department official.Speaking Friday at the U.N. Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, Thomas G. DiNanno, under secretary of state for arms control and international secu