In the U.S. capital made a proposal to connect China to the Treaty on strategic offensive arms (start), said the US Secretary of state Mike Pompeo. according to his statement, the US feel threatened not only from Russia, because the nuclear potential appeared in other countries. Pompeo said that meant China. before Pompeo said the start Treaty with Russia should be renewed, if you can find an acceptable option. He told that the countries are Initially the discussion about the extension of the contract. according to his statement, in contrast to the situation with the Treaty on the elimination of intermediate-range and shorter-range start " largely observed ". Pompeo added that the extension of the contract the U.S. wants to ensure that It reflects the existing technologies, some of which have the ability to be more important than the nuclear triad. The contract on reduction of strategic offensive arms, signed by Russia and the United States in 2010 and entered into force on 5 February 2011. It provides that each party reduce its nuclear stockpile so that after 7 years in the future the total number of weapons did not exceed 700 Intercontinental ballistic missiles, ballistic missiles on submarines and heavy bombers, and 1550 warheads and 800 deployed and nondeployed launchers. The contract obliges the Russian Federation and the United States to exchange information on the number of warheads and carriers twice a year. The Deadline is reached on 5 February 2018, which Russia and the United States were obliged to achieve the targets start-3. The validity of the contract ends in 2021. <span style="color:darkgray