Nuclear arms control was talked about with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Alaska summit earlier this month in an attempt to achieve "denuclearization," President Donald Trump told reporters, according to a Reuters report on Tuesday.
China should also be involved in theses discussions, Trump said, according to the report.
This comes as the three powers are all in the midst of major modernizations of their nuclear arsenals just as the last remaining nuclear arms control treaty (START) is set to expire this coming February.
Both Trump and Putin have warned in public statements that the war in Ukraine has the risk of causing the outbreak of World War III.
China is currently the third largest nuclear power in the world with approximately 600 warheads, according to the Federation of American Scientists. Fourth is France with 290, while Great Britain is the fifth largest power with 225 nuclear warheads.
"Russia is willing to do [denuclearization], and I think China is going to be willing to do it," Trump said, according to The Kyiv Independent. "We can't let nuclear weapons proliferate. We have to stop nuclear weapons."
The president did not reveal any other details of the discussion.
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