Moscow, 4 February. The presidents of Russia, Vladimir Putin, and the United States, Donald Trump, are running out of time to preserve START III, the last nuclear disarmament agreement between the two nations. The end of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty will result in the absence of a global nuclear arms control system for the first time since 1972, the year in which the Soviet Union and the United States signed SALT. Experts from both sides are concerned about the conflict between Russia and the West generated by the war in Ukraine, fearing that the world may experience strategic instability akin to that which led to the Cuban Crisis. START III, also known as New START, was signed on 8 April 2010 in Prague by the presidents of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, and the United States, Barack Obama. This treaty was extended in February 2021 for an additional period of five years.
START III: Trump and Putin are running out of time to save the nuclear disarmament treaty.
