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The United States and Russia make contact on strategic stability, but negotiations on the future of bilateral strategic arms control have not begun. The third NPT review conference preparatory committee meeting wraps up in New York, France suggests basing agreements to allies, and Kyrgyzstan says it will join the ban treaty. 

Experts Adam Scheinman, Ulrich Kühn, and Toby Dalton weigh in.

Given the stakes for global safety and security, defenders of the NPT will need to insulate the treaty and shore up support.

There is an acute feeling that time is running out—that this is Europe’s last chance to stand on its own feet militarily.

Some of the disruption could lead to arms control talks with China or a nuclear agreement with North Korea but it could also drive South Korea or Japan to acquire nuclear weapons.

Ukraine Objects to Russian Plans for Zaporizhzhia

Rogov was a leading Russian and international specialist on arms control.

During the high-stakes, February 28 Oval Office meeting when U.S. President Donald Trump tried to bully Volodymyr Zelenskyy into accepting a pro-Kremlin formula for ending the war in Ukraine, he accused the Ukrainian president of not wanting peace, and claimed he was “gambling with the lives of millions of people. You’re gambling with World War III.”

An agency report said an investigation revealed evidence that the CS riot control agent was used on battlefield but did not identify who was responsible.   

Without reciprocal constraints, Russia and the United States will face a new era of uncertainty after the expiration of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty agreement on Feb. 5, 2026. This webinar briefing will explore what pathways toward a new agreement exist for U.S. and Russian negotiators, as well as what the consequences of failure might mean for the global nuclear order.

U.S. Sanctions Russian Operator at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant

Efforts to support a Russian-Ukrainian ceasefire will have to include specific conventional arms control measures for which the CFE Treaty can be a model.

The moribund process offers the best tool for reviving the international arms control regime.

It has been barely a month since Inauguration Day, but U.S. President Donald Trump is already moving to reshape longstanding foreign policy, radically alter relationships with the nation’s closest allies, and upend its role as a bulwark against an expansionist, authoritarian Russia.

Congress should support H.Res. 100 and S.Res. 61, which calls for a freeze on U.S. and Russian deployed warheads beyond New START, condemns nuclear threats by all nations, and urges efforts to engage in nuclear arms control diplomacy bilaterally with Russia and bilaterally with China. (March 2025)