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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.

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By Rose Gottemoeller and Anatoly Antonov
Published on Apr 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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This article was orignally published by Foreign Affairs.

About the Authors

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. 

Anatoly Antonov

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.

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Rose Gottemoeller
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Nuclear Policy Program
Rose Gottemoeller
Anatoly Antonov

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.

EconomySecurityForeign PolicyNuclear PolicyNorth AmericaUnited StatesRussia

Carnegie does not take institutional positions on public policy issues; the views represented herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of Carnegie, its staff, or its trustees.

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