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Russian official says U.S. nuclear arsenal upgraded at unprecedented speed

Xinhua, March 11, 2016 Adjust font size:

A Russian foreign ministry official said Friday that the United States is beefing up its nuclear arsenal at an unprecedented speed.

Although there's no regulation preventing countries from updating their nuclear capacity, the U.S. actions are "worth noticing," Mikhail Ulyanov, director of the non-proliferation and arms control office, told Russian paper Kommersant.

The United States is building new bombers, submarines and intercontinental ballistic missiles, known as the nuclear triad, to improve its nuclear strike ability at a scale unseen under previous U.S. administrations, Ulyanov said.

He added that the U.S. actions run against its previous commitment to downscale nuclear weapons.

U.S. President Barack Obama said in April 2009 that the U.S. government would work toward making the world free of nuclear weapons. Endi