The iconic Cold War INF treaty is now dead and buried, and another key pillar of international nuclear order may soon follow suit.
Daniel R. DePetrisOn August 2, the United States and Russia marked a solemn occasion: the death of a 32-year old arms control treaty that severely limited the prospect of a nuclear war in Europe during the height of the Cold War. Moscow's testing and deployment of a treaty-busting ground-launched missile system was a direct violation of the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty and proved to be too much for the two nuclear superpowers to resolve.
The New START treaty, signed in April 2010, was a relatively straightforward but highly technical agreement that capped the number of nuclear warheads the United States and Russia could deploy on intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-launched missiles, and heavy bombers to 1,550 apiece. The quantity of deployed launchers on land, in the air, and in the sea was also fixed at 700, introducing a degree of strategic parity between the world's two largest nuclear powers.
The Trump administration has suggested that New START is a flawed treaty that should be revised or circumvented altogether to incorporate more weapons systems and more participants. National Security Adviser John Bolton, a man who has never met an arms control agreement he hasn't wanted to destroy, stated it was unlikely the accord would be extended without China also being a party of it.
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