António Guterres urges two powers to quickly sign new deal as New Start expires
The UN secretary general, António Guterres, has urged the US and Russia to quickly sign a new nuclear arms control deal, as the existing treaty expired in what he called a “grave moment for international peace and security”.
The last nuclear treaty between the two powers, the New Start agreement, ended on Thursday, formally releasing both Moscow and Washington from a raft of restrictions on their nuclear arsenals and triggering fears of a global arms race.
“For the first time in more than half a century, we face a world without any binding limits on the strategic nuclear arsenals of … the two states that possess the overwhelming majority of the global stockpile of nuclear weapons,” Guterres said in a statement on Wednesday.
What’s stopping Russia from having just ignored the deal anyway?
What a weirdly specific question. What’s stopping America?
They’d at least be limited by having to hide the fact that they’re ignoring the deal. And they realistically wouldn’t be able to hide much from US intelligence. I can’t imagine avoiding international outrage being a huge motivator for them at this point but they probably don’t want the US and Europe being even more motivated to destroy the Russian economy or increasing military support for Ukraine.
As if they cared about international outrage
Agree. They don’t follow agreements like this
They won’t follow when its in their interest but if they can’t/don’t anyway then its better to get a deal so the US doesn’t too.
I haven’t looked into this particular agreement, but historically arms treaties included verification, limited by what both parties would accept for verification. IIRC, since neither country wanted to let foreign inspectors into their ICBM silos, SALT had the US and USSR dismantle ICBMs where satellites could see.
Don’t got no money. I genuinely don’t think they can afford to build too many new nukes.
Canadian geese.