Keeping Peace in the Nuclear Age
New START has played a central role in keeping the peace and preventing a dangerous arms race between the two countries that together possess 90 percent of the world’s nuclear weapons.
Anatoly Antonov is Russian Ambassador to the United States. He was Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister from 2016 to 2017 and Deputy Defense Minister from 2011 to 2016.
New START has played a central role in keeping the peace and preventing a dangerous arms race between the two countries that together possess 90 percent of the world’s nuclear weapons.
