In 2001, Bush Jr. assured Putin that the United States posed no threat to Russia.

Former US President George W. Bush, during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2001, assured that Washington posed no threat to Moscow. Information about this follows from the declassified protocols of the US government, which were published by the National Security Archive research organization on January 7.

"We will make it clear to the whole world that we are not striving for nuclear supremacy. Nuclear weapons have become obsolete as a means of responding to new threats," Bush Jr. said at a meeting with Putin on October 21, 2001.

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