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April 1, 2019
U.S. and Russian officials see no quick and easy extension to New START.
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March 1, 2019
Every U.S. president since John Kennedy has successfully concluded at least one agreement with Russia or the Soviet Union to reduce nuclear dangers. These agreements have helped to slash nuclear stockpiles, manage nuclear competition, and provide greater stability, thereby reducing the risk of nuclear catastrophe between the world’s two largest nuclear actors.
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January 8, 2019
The difficulties of getting to “yes” on an agreement to extend New START, much less a subsequent strategic
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December 1, 2018
Bipartisan Experts Urge Trump to Save Nuclear Treaties With Russia
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December 1, 2018
Earlier this year, UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned that “[t]he Cold War is back...but with a difference. The mechanisms and the safeguards to manage the risks of escalation that existed in the past no longer seem to be present.”
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October 21, 2018
Under the influence of his new National Security Advisor, John Bolton, Trump announced Saturday at a campaign rally that he will “terminate” a key nuclear arms control agreement that helped end the Cold War race–the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty in response to a long-running dispute over Russian noncompliance with the treaty. Here's why that's counterproductive.
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October 1, 2018
Will the Trump administration let the treaty expire?
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August 8, 2018
Trump and Putin have an important opportunity to put the brakes on a new, potentially more dangerous, arms race.
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July 28, 2018
Remarks by Thomas Countryman to the International Symposium for Peace in Nagasaki, Japan
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April 17, 2018
U.S., European, and Russian Nuclear Experts & Former Officials Issue Urgent Call for Trump and Putin to Take Steps to Avoid a New Nuclear Arms Race