The revolutionary START Turns 30: Assessments and Prospects
... the treaty’s signature. With the protocol, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan became parties to the treaty in the USSR’s place, and Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan committed to be non-nuclear weapon states. One can look at the history of arms control and see START II, which never entered into force, the demise of the ABM Treaty, the more recent death of INF, the abysmal state of the multilateral Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty, and now the end of Open Skies, victim to first a US and then a Russian decision ...
02.08.2021