Don’t Trust and Don’t Verify. New Normality for New START

... for the 1980s Alexander Yermakov: The Nuclear Triad: Alternatives from the Days Gone By and Possible Futures Although some Russian speakers have criticized Sullivan’s references to the times of the Cold War, when the two countries were engaged in arms control despite their confrontation, we see in fact a situation that closely resembles the fate of the 1979 Treaty on the Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (SALT-2). The agreement, which has no legal basis for political reasons, continues to be implemented as mutually beneficial from a practical point of view. In the absence of an inspection regime, the parties have no other option but to do business on trust: ...