Cathy Gwin
Senior Director, Communications
New START, the last remaining arms control treaty capping U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals, expires on February 5. This marks the beginning of a dangerous new era. For the first time in several decades, there will be no limits on nuclear weapons, less visibility into Russian nuclear weapons activities, and fewer tools to manage a crisis between the world’s two largest nuclear powers.
At a time of rising global tensions and rapid technological change, NTI continues to deepen its international partnerships and promote productive dialogue on nuclear risk reduction efforts.
The world urgently needs both sides to take concrete steps to prevent a war of words from spiraling into actual conflict between two nuclear-armed countries.
There is a dangerous prospect of a rapid and unpredictable escalation of conflict between the two nuclear-armed countries.
The DoD’s new CWMD strategy, last updated in 2014, comes at a time when longstanding norms against nuclear use are being tested.
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