"Now, at the same time, Russia and China both want to negotiate with us to stop this craziness of spending billions and billions of dollars on nuclear weapons", Trump said.
He added, however, that until an agreement is reached the only thing he can do is to "create, by far, the strongest nuclear force anywhere in the world".
According to the American president, the US has a vast amount of "super-fast missiles", and the country needs them because both Moscow and Beijing possess similar weapons.
"We have the super-fast missiles — tremendous number of the super-fast. We call them 'super-fast,' where they’re four, five, six, and even seven times faster than an ordinary missile", Trump noted.
The statement by the president comes a year after Washington decided to withdraw from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty with Russia and started testing new missiles operating at previously banned ranges. The US claimed that Moscow had been violating the accord by developing its 9M729 missile, which allegedly breaks the conditions of the treaty.
Russia denied the accusations and presented the missile for inspection, but the US ignored the move.
