Aleksey Arbatov: Talks on a Future START Should Have Been Launched Yesterday

... impossible without imposing any restrictions on China. At the next stage, China must be involved in such a treaty. Would it be correct to say that, as a matter of principle, we are on the threshold of destroying the treaty system? Can the expired agreements (ABM Treaty, the CFE Treaty, the INF Treaty) be followed by the endangered START and TOS and then by the CTBT, Non-Proliferation Treaty and other fundamental agreements? That is absolutely correct. If the central link falls apart… there are already attempts to undermine ...