The Complications That China’s Build-Up Brings to Nuclear Balance

6/19/26
NUCLEAR WEAPONS
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In late February, the United States and Russia found themselves without an agreement about the disposition of their major strategic nuclear weapons for the first time in more than 20 years.

The previous international agreement was called New START and applied to all strategic nuclear weapons on both sides. But with advances in time and technology and developments in these destructive technologies, the world will become increasingly unpredictable. If a new international agreement can be negotiated, in my view it may be the last such understanding in world history.

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