Silence from the US side after a third round of indirect talks and frustration expressed by President Donald Trump set the stage for military strikes.
- Professor of International Relations, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto
- Professor of International Relations, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
The US administration may sense that Iran is weak and ready to do a deal. But negotiations could be undone by intransigent red lines.
El anuncio de Putin de que Rusia dejará de participar en el Nuevo START pone en pausa el último acuerdo sobre armas nucleares que queda entre Estados Unidos y Rusia.
Putin’s announcement to Russia will no longer participate in the New START pauses the last remaining nuclear weapons agreement between the U.S. and Russia.
Russia’s refusal to allow the US to inspect its nuclear arsenal could reignite pressure for the US to develop new nuclear weapons.
Tactical nuclear weapons were designed to be used on the battlefield rather than for strategic defense, but that doesn’t mean there’s a plausible case for using them.
A nuclear nonproliferation expert explains why Iran was always unlikely to return to the 2015 international agreement that limited its nuclear weapon development.
Despite decades of progress on nonproliferation, Russia’s new threats of nuclear strikes bring to mind that convincing countries to reduce their nuclear weapons has long been very difficult.
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