Official Account of the Under Secretary of @StateDept for Arms Control and Int'l Security (T).
Feb 6 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
New START was signed in 2010 and its limits on warheads and launchers are no longer relevant in 2026 when one nuclear power is expanding its arsenal at a scale and pace not seen in over half a century and another continues to maintain and develop a vast range of nuclear systems unconstrained by New START’s terms. (1/6) @UN_Disarmament @usmissiongeneva @usunvie
…almost all of the U.S. deployed nuclear forces were subject to New START while only a fraction of Russia's much larger stockpile was…exactly zero Chinese nuclear weapons were covered by New START. @mfa_russia @MFA_CPC (2/6)