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Toggle open close The Biden Administration recently agreed to an unconditional five-year extension of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) with the Russian Federation before it was scheduled to expire on February 5, 2021. New START restricts the number of strategic nuclear delivery systems and warheads each country can deploy, but the treaty contains significant flaws. Instead of continuing the Trump Administration’s efforts to seek improvements to the treaty, the United States received nothing in return for its agreement to extend. In fact, just days later, perhaps feeling e...

Russia’s Putin Signs Law Extending Nuclear Arms Control Treaty With US by 5 Years Russia’s lower and upper houses of parliament voted unanimously to ratify the extension on Wednesday. Russia said the extension will come into effect once the two sides have exchanged diplomatic notes after each completes their domestic procedures. The Kremlin’s statement said that “renewing the treaty meets the national interests of the Russian Federation, makes it possible to maintain the transparency and predictability of strategic relations between Russia and the United States and to suppo...

The three legs of the triad, including intercontinental ballistic missiles and ballistic-launching nuclear submarines, are operating “decades beyond their design life,” Lt. Gen. James C. Dawkins Jr., the Air Force’s deputy chief of staff for strategic deterrence and nuclear integration, told a recent online discussion sponsored by The Heritage Foundation, while rivals such as China and Russia press ahead with major modernization plans. “Nuclear threats to our nation are increasing,” Gen. Dawkins said. “We must have the ability to respond appropriately.” The AGM-86B cruise missil...