Dmitry Trenin: Strategic stability now rests on fear
Arms control is finished, now comes the real nuclear order
Thursday, February 5, 2026. This is the day the Russian-American Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) expired. While this symbolically closes a 50-year chapter of nuclear arms control, in practice the era of meaningful Russian-American negotiations in this sphere ended long ago.
The reasons are both objective and political. Globa