{"id":16413,"date":"2016-10-07T09:36:04","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T09:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=16413"},"modified":"2016-10-07T09:36:04","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T09:36:04","slug":"russia-suspends-plutonium-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/russia-suspends-plutonium-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia suspends plutonium agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Recently Russia has suspended its agreement with which of the following country to reduce their surplus weapons-grade plutonium?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) China<br \/>\n(b) France<br \/>\n(c) U.S.A<br \/>\n(d) Germany<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (c)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 3 October 2016 Russia has suspended an agreement with the U.S.A on the disposal of surplus weapons-grade plutonium.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The two countries were each required to dispose of 34 tonnes of weapons grade plutonium under a weapons reduction agreement signed in June 2000.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to US state department combined 68 tonnes of plutonium is enough material for approximately 17,000 nuclear weapons.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia suspended the agreement because of &#8220;the emergence of a threat to strategic stability and as a result of unfriendly actions by the United States of America toward the Russian Federation.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/world\/20161003\/1045961547\/agreement-russia-us-plutonium.html\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/world\/20161003\/1045961547\/agreement-russia-us-plutonium.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.world-nuclear-news.org\/NP-Russia-suspends-plutonium-agreement-with-USA-04101601.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.world-nuclear-news.org\/NP-Russia-suspends-plutonium-agreement-with-USA-04101601.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-37539616\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-37539616<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/russia-suspends-plutonium-deal-with-us-amid-worsening-ties\/a-35947549\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/russia-suspends-plutonium-deal-with-us-amid-worsening-ties\/a-35947549<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Recently Russia has suspended its agreement with which of the following country to reduce their surplus weapons-grade plutonium? (a) China (b) France (c) U.S.A (d) Germany Ans: (c) Related facts: On 3 October 2016 Russia has suspended an agreement with the U.S.A on the disposal of surplus weapons-grade plutonium. The two countries were each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[2529],"class_list":["post-16413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intne","tag-international-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}