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New START Treaty Expires: First Time Since 1970s With No Nuclear Arms Control
The expiration of the last US-Russia nuclear arms control treaty ends over five decades of binding limits on the world's two largest nuclear arsenals. No replacement is under negotiation. The loss of …
- New START expired on February 5, 2026, ending the last legally binding limits on US and Russian nuclear arsenals — 1,550 deployed strategic …
- This marks the first time since the early 1970s that there are no binding nuclear arms control agreements between the two nations that …