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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.

by Rose Gottemoeller and Anatoly Antonov
published by
Foreign Affairs
 on April 29, 2020

Source: Foreign Affairs

Ten years ago, the United States and Russia signed the New START treaty—a nuclear arms control agreement that we, as the heads of our governments’ respective delegations, helped negotiate. Since then, 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.

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