this post was submitted on 09 Feb 2025
34 points (100.0% liked)

World News

33103 readers
520 users here now

News from around the world!

Rules:

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or New START, which caps the number of strategic nuclear warheads that the United States and Russia can deploy, and the deployment of land- and submarine-based missiles and bombers to deliver them, is due to expire on February 5, 2026.

It is the last remaining pillar of nuclear arms control between the world's two biggest nuclear powers.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] htrayl 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Russia criticizing the US nuclear arms policy is rich, given how they have both loosened their requirements on when they would use nuclear weapons, and have repeatedly and consistently have used nuclear threats as a military strategy since their invasion of Ukraine.

I guess they have to take this position as the US at least has working armaments and not just rusted, unmaintained, weapons.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

I think you will find no nuclear threats have been made that weren’t responses to threat themselves.