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Editorial: Absent New START, We Need a New Nuclear Arms Treaty
The expiration removes limits on about 1,550 deployed warheads per side, raising concerns over nuclear build-ups and calls for China to join future arms control talks.
- On February 5, the New START treaty expired, removing the limit of roughly 1,550 deployed warheads for the United States and Russia.
- Negotiators fell apart over what to include—missile defenses and novel systems—while Russia proposed an informal extension that the United States declined, and China showed no interest in limits.
- The administration sent Thomas G. DiNanno to Switzerland to address the Conference on Disarmament, arguing New START imposed unacceptable constraints, while analysts say Washington is weighing deployment increases and possible nuclear testing.
- Decades of arms-control gains are at acute risk as progress over several decades in reducing nuclear arsenals could be undone with China expanding and the United States and Russia poised to follow, raising renewed arms-race risk.
- The upcoming NPT Review Conference this spring offers a venue to press for new talks, with experts urging multilateral negotiations and an informal U.S.-Russia arrangement to maintain stability.
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After New START, Accelerated Nuclear Arms Racing?
A photograph of the 1971 Licorne nuclear test, which was conducted in French Polynesia in the Pacific Ocean. Credit: CTBTOBy John BurroughsSAN FRANCISCO, USA, Feb 12 2026 (IPS) The most recent agreement limiting U.S. and Russian strategic nuclear arsenals, New START, expired on February 5, and prospects for any kind of follow-on agreement are very uncertain. Progress over several decades in halting the growth of nuclear arsenals and then in redu…
Pasadena Star News
Editorial: Absent New START, we need a new nuclear arms treaty
When Americans — when any Westerners — find themselves in agreement with the reasonable, nuanced tone of Vladimir V. Putin on a sensitive international issue, you know the world has gone topsy-turvy. Yet that is the case facing the West this week. The New START treaty, versions of which have kept the world safe from nuclear catastrophe for generations, expired last Thursday. In the lead-up, the Russian president casually suggested the 15-year-ol…
China’s massive and opaque nuclear buildup killed new START Treaty
FPI / February 11, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Feb. 5, 2026, the 2010 United States-Russia New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), negotiated between former President Barack Obama and Russian leader Vladimir Putin expired. The Trump Administration has made clear that this had to happen in large part due to the actions of […]
The renewal of this treaty would mean, for the rarer international environment, a very significant sign of détente, a pause in the atmosphere.
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