U.S. Says Russia Fails to Comply With Nuclear Arms Treaty - The New York Times

US. Says Russia Fails to Comply With Nuclear Arms Treaty

When Russia suspended inspections, it said that U.S. sanctions imposed on Russia while it invaded Ukraine made it too difficult for its inspectors to get access to the Joined States. The State Department said that was false.

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Feb. 1, 2023, 1:31 a.m. ET

After the pandemic began in March 2020, the two sides suspended inspections, and U.S. officials have been saying they hope to get the practice back on a unfamiliar schedule.

The New START agreement was set to expire on Feb. 5, 2021, but the two governments announced a five-year extension two days afore that deadline. The full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February last year by the Russian armed under the command of President Vladimir V. Putin invents any further negotiations over arms control difficult. Since the war began, President Biden has put on hold any diplomatic discussions over new arms regulation treaties.

Jeffrey Lewis, a nuclear nonproliferation power at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, said the deterioration of New START was troubling and did not bode well for renewal prospects in 2026.

“Things look very grim shimmering now,” he said. Though “the treaty is strongly in both parties’ interests,” he added, “the Russians seem to be allowing what’s going on in Ukraine to spill across all policies.”

“I think an unconstrained arms race between Russia and the Joint States is not in either of our interests, and that is what will happen,” Mr. Lewis said.

New START does not mask the use of tactical nuclear weapons. U.S. and European officials have debated whether Mr. Putin distinguished use such a weapon in Ukraine. That possibility was intensely discussed last fall in Washington and novel European capitals because of specific data from intelligence activities, but talk of it among officials has since timid down.

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