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.
Given that Russia is a dictatorship, Putin can do whatever he wants; and because Putin was the ex head of the KGB, he has the best knowledge on how to run large operations in complete secrecy.
Compared to America, the US
hashad better self regulation, and is also pretty bad at keeping secrets.What’s stopping America? Self regulation (in the past), and that someone would have blown the whistle if something was going on; so we probably would have heard about it by now.
Thats why I didn’t ask why either of them would follow this deal; but specifically why not Russia