“What's really strikes me about ACA is the potential to shape the next generation of leaders on arms control and nuclear policy. This is something I witnessed firsthand as someone who was introduced to the field through ACA.”
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A growing narrative among U.S. strategists frames China and Russia as a monolithic threat, but the potential for cooperation between them is overstated.
For the moment, however, the two nuclear superpowers are left with no legally binding curbs on deploying their strategic nuclear weapons.
Fifteen years after it was signed by Russia and the United States, the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty is less than one month from expiring. Will the two countries start building up their arsenals again?
Trump on New START: ‘If It Expires, It Expires’
China defends build-up in nuclear policy white paper, White House considers testing options, Russia impatient on New START proposal, Australia debates nuclear weapons on U.S. submarines, and more.
With two months left before the treaty expires, a quick-fix does not require negotiations, just a commitment by Russia and the United States to continue abiding by the New START limits.
Members of the UN General Assembly’s First Committee voted overwhelmingly to approve two resolutions calling for greater international scrutiny of the risks posed by the military use of AI, with Russia and the United States in notable opposition.
Friction over Russia’s war against Ukraine and recent alleged incursions by both sides into each other's territory color how the exercises are viewed.
Russia Tests Nuclear-Powered Cruise Missile, Torpedo
Calls to upload reserve strategic warheads to existing U.S. delivery systems and for large future expansions of U.S. strategic forces are major impediments to the negotiation of a follow-on to the 2010 New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. There are alternatives to a strategic forces build-up to achieve the foreign policy goals of the United States.
The UN's First Committee meets under new organizational rules while Trump weighs Russian proposal on New START, the Pentagon briefs Congress on Golden Dome, a bipartisan delegation visits China, the TPNW crosses a significant threshold, and more.
The Kremlin’s proposal offered some hope but the United States had no immediate formal reaction.
The alliance responded to an incursion at an unprecedented scale since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
The military exercises were less expansive than those before Russia invaded Ukraine in 2002 but still “very aggressive,” the Polish prime minister said.