Source: Foreign Policy
by Ariel Petrovics
“The United States is approaching a decisive moment in its management of nuclear risk. New START — the last remaining arms control agreement between the United States and Russia — is scheduled to expire on Feb. 5. Signed in 2010, New START has helped limit nuclear competition between the world’s largest arsenals by capping warheads and delivery systems and enabling inspections and data exchanges. Although Russia suspended inspections and halted treaty-mandated data exchanges in 2023, protesting U.S. and NATO support for Ukraine, it promised to maintain treaty limits and has since offered to extend those limits by one year if the United States agrees to do the same.” (01/23/26)