Nuclear Boomerang

... (INF) Treaty in 2019 and the Treaty on Open Skies the following year. In response to Western pursuit of Russia’s “strategic defeat” amid the Ukraine conflict, Moscow in 2023 suspended its participation in the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) and left the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE). In 2023, Russia also revoked ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT). Today, the three main pillars of the nuclear arms control system are under threat....