New START and the Prospects for Weapons Limitation in Russian-American Relations

... during the Trump administration, it seemed that nearly fifty years of nuclear arms control history had come to an end. If New START had ceased to exist on February 5 this year, the 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 arms race, including strategic land-based and submarine-based missiles, medium-range missiles, non-strategic nuclear weapons, as well as space strike systems, cyber and laser weapons, and many other innovative weapons systems. As a consequence,...