Formal Arms Control May Be Ending

“When President Vladimir Putin announced at the end of a 100-minute speech on Tuesday that he would suspend Russia’s participation in the New START treaty — the last surviving arms control agreement between the two largest nuclear-armed powers — it was one more indication that the era of formal arms control may be dying,” the New York Times reports.

“Even before Mr. Putin dismissed the implementation of the treaty’s required inspections as ‘nonsense,’ it was already in deep trouble.”