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The extended New Start treaty, a hope for disarmament

2021-01-28T18:58:49.454Z


ANALYSIS - The extension of the deal is good news in a world where 90% of the world's nuclear weapons are held by the United States and Russia.


It is a resurgence of the world before, and like all regulatory instruments of the post-Cold War era, it is insufficient to restore the stability of the strategic balance between Russia and the United States.

But the five-year extension of the New Start Treaty, which limits the nuclear arsenals deployed by the two countries to 1,550 warheads and restricts the number of their launchers, is an encouraging sign for the security of the global world.

It is also the first diplomatic breakthrough between the United States and Russia, as well as the first disarmament breakthrough in a long time.

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Donald Trump may well get along with Vladimir Putin, he had always refused to extend for more than a year the New Start treaty signed in 2010 by his predecessor, who had made it one of the components of his Russian bet.

Not because it was Barack Obama, but because he wanted to negotiate a more comprehensive agreement with China and he had little appetite

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Source: lefigaro

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