Law enforcement authorities said the suspected arms trafficker is believed to be part of a criminal group that has smuggled weapons from the U.S. to Russia.

Russia on Friday condemned an executive order by U.S. President Donald Trump to build a new missile defence shield, accusing the United States of trying to upset the global nuclear balance and pave the wave for military confrontation in space.

"Our job—where we can'is to provide Latin America with a choice," a U.K. government minister said on Thursday.

The Russian Foreign Ministry's special ambassador said Moscow may decide to favor the "quantitative and qualitative increase" of nuclear arms.

NICOLE GRAJEWSKI is a Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and an Associate with the Project on Managing the Atom at the Harvard Kennedy School. She is the author of Russia and Iran: Partners in Defiance From Syria to Ukraine.

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