New START and the Prospects for Weapons Limitation in Russian-American Relations
... nuclear arms control system would have been completely dismantled, after which the question of the viability of the NPT and CTBT would obviously arise. In addition, the destruction of this system would most likely lead to an uncontrolled multilateral ... ... Biden, almost immediately after taking office, made a decision to extend the New START Treaty for five years practically on Russian terms, i.e. in the form in which it was signed in 2010. The only reason the Americans conditioned the extension of the ...