It’s not just Putin or the refusal of the main powers to disarm. Irresponsible regimes in Israel and North Korea are also raising global nuclear tensions
, which caps deployed strategic nuclear arsenals. It was Russia’s last such treaty with the US.
In other words, at the very moment when the Kremlin is under unprecedented pressure and US-Russia relations are at their most tense since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, the political channels, agreed mechanisms and binding limits that could help avoid a nuclear collision are less robust and dependable than ever before. While the risk of unintended nuclear confrontation is ever-present,Israel is another nuclear-armed state under extreme stress, mostly due to its volatile rightwing prime minister.
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