U.S.-Russia Arms Control: Where We Are and Where We Are Going

... into the future. In this way, arms control helps to keep defense spending in check, but it also allows countries to build up mutual confidence, stability, and security. Only a few months ago I was absolutely sure that after U.S. withdrawal from the INF Treaty nearly fifty years old history of nuclear arms control was coming to its end. In general, the collapse of arms control agreements (such as the ABM Treaty and INF Treaty) has unleashed old arms racing dynamics and generated new ones, and it ...