The last arms control treaty expires

The American president knows nothing about nuclear weapons, and doesn’t care. He is not a man who will put any effort into rebuilding a nuclear arms control agreement.
Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin
United States President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, pictured in July 2018, are both reckless men, writes Gwynne Dyer.

LONDON, U.K.—Vladimir Putin is a reckless man who invades countries and has his opponents killed, but the Russian president understands that some things are too dangerous to meddle with. That’s why he proposed last September that the United States and Russia should exten...

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