Commentary: Abandoning our nuclear arms treaties with Russia is a bad idea
by Ivo Daalder, Chicago Tribune
Jul 22, 2019
3 minutes
For more than 50 years, the United States and Russia have agreed that their own security required negotiating agreements limiting their nuclear weapons deployments and capabilities. In that time, the two countries have successfully concluded seven major agreements to reduce their nuclear arsenals. The last of these, the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or New START, was signed in 2010 and capped each side's deployed warheads at 1,550.
Yet, the nuclear arms control edifice that was built up over
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