"When it comes to nuclear risks, everything is trending in the wrong direction over the course of 2025. Nuclear risks have become more complex, more dangerous and we have seen leaders fail in their obligation to manage those risks. And we are two days away from watching the United States and Russia fritter away half a century of work to maintain nuclear stability between the two largest nuclear states."
"When there is an agreement, it means there is trust but when there is no agreement, it means that trust has been exhausted, Medvedev, who has become an outspoken Moscow hawk, said. Arms control advocates have appealed to the world's two nuclear weapon superpowers to act at the 11th-hour to salvage the treaty, which limits each country's deployed strategic arsenal to 1,550 warheads and the total number of delivery systems (missiles or bombers) to 800."
The New START treaty between the United States and Russia will expire on Thursday, removing the last mutual limits on the world's two largest nuclear arsenals. The expiration eliminates caps that limited each country's deployed strategic arsenal to 1,550 warheads and capped delivery systems at 800. Observers warn the milestone undermines more than five decades of arms-control stability amid rising global instability and erosion of post‑war rules. Alexandra Bell characterized nuclear risks as trending in the wrong direction for 2025, with increasing complexity and dangerous leadership failures in risk management. Attempts to extend the treaty stalled despite a one-year proposal from Vladimir Putin and tentative approval from Donald Trump.
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