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. Global geopolitics has undergone tectonic change. Nuclear multipolarity is now a fact. Advanced conventional weapons can achieve strategic effects once associated only with nuclear arms. New domains of confrontation have opened in cyberspace, outer space, and even biotechnology. Old numerical limits on warheads and…
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