WASHINGTON — The last remaining US-Russian treaty setting caps on nuclear weapons expired at the stroke of midnight, ending five decades of nearly continuous, if not always harmonious, negotiated efforts to lower the risk of Armageddon through mutual superpower restraint on the size of their respective weapons caches.
And while Axios reported US and Russian officials are close to a deal to observe some of the treaty’s obligations, the formal demise of New START raises the risk of a new nuclear arms race arising between Moscow and Washington, with strategic and budgetary consequences for both, according to a number of experts who sounded the alarm in the days leading up to its expiration.
Signed in 2010, the treaty limited Russia and the United States each to no more…
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