There was a thought that, as the guns fell silent at the close of World War 2, the world might experience a lasting peace. This illusion was shattered fairly quickly, as the Iron Curtain extended into ...

A treaty that prevented the US and Russia from expanding their nuclear weapons arsenals expired on Thursday, dismantling a major guardrail against a renewed arms race between the rival powers. The ...

The U.S. and Russia are barreling toward what could become the first unrestricted nuclear arms race since the Cold War, as the last remaining treaty limiting their nuclear arsenals is set to expire in ...

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It was supposed to be the end of an era, and the Cold War era at that. On Thursday 5 February, the last remaining arms control treaty between the United States and Russia expired. But at the very ...

WASHINGTON, DC -- The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), the final remaining bilateral agreement limiting US and Russian nuclear arsenals, expired on February 5, closing a chapter that ...