The clock is ticking on the only remaining arms control treaty that keeps the world’s two leading nuclear powers -- Russia and the United States -- in check.
In a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Thursday, ranking member Sen. Jack Reed, D-RI, said the treaty’s expiration would signal for the first time in more than four decades that"there is no arms control regime in the world" -- which could potentially lead to arms proliferation.
Commander of U.S. Strategic Command Charles A. Richard, who testified at the hearing, addressed concerns over a potential arms race, saying that the idea"baffles him," as no other nation has done more to reduce reliance on nuclear weapons. The White House has put off extending the 2011 Obama-Medvedev negotiated treaty in an attempt to bringPresident Donald Trump, right, meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, June 28, 2019.
In response to another question, O’Brien invoked the White House’s desire to bring China into negotiations."Once any potential agreement takes shape, we’ll have to see how the issue of China plays into it. But we’ll get through that as part of the negotiating process." "We suggest extending the New START Treaty without any preconditions ... I hope that the Americans have heard us," Lavrov later said.Many arms control experts have criticized the administration for not moving forward with extending New START as leverage to bring China into negotiations.
Vaddi also challenged the White House’s strategy of leverage, saying that it only made sense if the administration had an idea of what it wants out of an agreement with China, which the White House has yet to identify.
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