The Real Risk After New START Isn’t Arms Racing

The Real Risk After New START Isn’t Arms Racing

Without the treaty, nuclear forces will become hard to verify and harder to trust.

The New Nuclear Challenge

With the end of the New START Treaty last week, it is now clear that the world has grown too comfortable with nuclear weapons. Given the risks posed by larger arsenals, and even more so by new additions to the nuclear club, the time to become uncomfortable again has arrived.

The world's top nuclear powers have no arsenal limits, here are the countries

The expiration of the New START treaty leaves more than 10,000 U.S. and Russia nuclear weapons unconstrained for the first time in decades.

The world’s top nuclear powers have no arsenal limits, here are the countries with nukes

Nuclear treaty expires as U.S. Russia New START agreement lapses Thursday, removing limits on deployed nuclear weapons and ending notification requirements.

Fears of nuclear arms race rise as US-Russia treaty expires

WASHINGTON – The expiration of the last remaining nuclear treaty between the United States and Russia on February 5 sparked fears about a nuclear arms race, with the two biggest nuclear superpowers without limits on their arsenals for the first time in decades. “The worst case is it spirals and then some unforeseen or foreseeable […]