Legal Aspects of Russia’s New Start Suspension Provide Opportunities for US Policy Makers

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Legal Aspects of Russia’s New Start Suspension Provide Opportunities for US Policy Makers

Vladimir Putin sent anti-diplomatic shock waves around the world when he announced that Russia was suspending its implementation of the New START arms control agreement last week.

By Rose Gottemoeller

Published on Mar 2, 2023

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

About the Author

Rose Gottemoeller

Nonresident Senior Fellow, Nuclear Policy Program

Rose Gottemoeller is a nonresident senior fellow in Carnegie’s Nuclear Policy Program. She also serves as lecturer at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. Ambassador Gottemoeller served as the deputy secretary general of NATO from 2016 to 2019.

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