New op-ed in @nytimes on the extension of #NewSTART and US/RUS #StrategicStability talks. James H. Anderson, Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Policy: nytimes.com/2020/07/29/opi…
"Increased U.S. nuclear force requirements to ensure credible deterrence against China would affect the United States-Russia strategic nuclear balance and threaten to undermine the prospects for further negotiated reductions."
"These talks need not focus on making China part of an extended New Start agreement. But renewing the treaty for the United States and Russia without conditions for bringing China into a broader arms control process carries risks for future security [...]".
Sounds like @USArmsControl and @StateISN are trying to persuade Russia to some kind of joint statement on China as a condition for #NewSTART extension? cc: @baklitskiy @KomissarWhipla @SokovNikolai
