By Guy Faulconbridge

MOSCOW (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday said Russian President Vladimir Putin’s offer to voluntarily maintain limits for a year on deployed strategic nuclear weapons “sounds like a good idea”.

What would it mean for nuclear arms control and what are the main issues ahead?

WHAT DID PUTIN OFFER?

Having long declined to address arms control in isolation, Putin in September offered to voluntarily maintain for one year the limits on deployed strategic nuclear weapons set out in the New START Treaty, which expires on Feb. 5, 2026.

New START, the last remaining Russian-U.S. arms control treaty, was signed by then-presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev in 2010 and came into force in 2011. It was extended for five years in 2021 by Putin and then-U.S. p

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