(Washington Post illustration)On Friday, the Trump administration confirmed its intention to scrap a historic nuclear arms-control pact with Moscow. He axed a landmark Asia-Pacific trade deal during his first week in office and controversially pulled the United States out of Obama-era international agreements on climate change and Iran’s nuclear program. Moscow denies those claims, accusing Washington of deliberately trying to exit the treaty to trigger a new arms race. “If the White House and the Kremlin do not agree to extend New START,” reported my colleagues, “the decision would turn the clock back to an era when Washington and Moscow possessed nuclear arms with practically no agreed restrictions and would risk the return of a full Cold War-style arms race.”. “Is the security of the world actually improved by Russia having absolutely zero constraints over the ability to produce intermediate-range nuclear missiles?

Source: Washington Post February 04, 2019 05:48 UTC