The New START treaty, the last of the nuclear arms control treaties between the United States and Russia, which was signed in 2010, will expire on Thursday.
Here is what the treaty entails, and what its lapse could mean for Washington and Moscow:
What is New START?
START stands for Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. It was a 10-year agreement signed in 2010 by then-US President Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev, a close ally of Vladimir Putin who served a single term as Russia’s president from 2008 to 2012. It came into effect in 2011.
New START was an extension of earlier treaties. START I, which reduced the number of strategic warheads in deployment in both the US and Russia, was signed between the US and the Soviet Union at the end of the Cold War in 1991 and was in place until 2009. START II, which aimed to further reduce the number of deployed strategic nuclear warheads and remove multiwarhead intercontinental ballistic missiles altogether, was signed in 1993 but never entered into force. Russia formally withdrew from it in 2002.
From 2003 to 2011, the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) was also in place. It required both sides to reduce operationally deployed strategic warheads, but it included minimal checks, relying on START I’s mechanisms for monitoring. This is what was replaced by New START in 2011.
New START was extended in 2021 for five more years after US President Joe Biden took office. The treaty states that it can only be extended once.
The treaty limits the deployment of strategic nuclear weapons, those designed to hit an adversary’s key political, military and industrial centres.
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