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U.S. Sanctions Russian Operator at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant
Efforts to support a Russian-Ukrainian ceasefire will have to include specific conventional arms control measures for which the CFE Treaty can be a model.
The moribund process offers the best tool for reviving the international arms control regime.
It has been barely a month since Inauguration Day, but U.S. President Donald Trump is already moving to reshape longstanding foreign policy, radically alter relationships with the nation’s closest allies, and upend its role as a bulwark against an expansionist, authoritarian Russia.
Congress should support H.Res. 100 and S.Res. 61, which for a freeze on U.S. and Russian deployed warheads beyond New START, condemn nuclear threats by all nations, and urge continued diplomacy with China.
“We welcome President Trump’s interest in negotiating a deal to limit and reduce the massive nuclear arsenals of the United States and Russia,” said Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association.
The last treaty limiting Russian and U.S. nuclear weapons expires in 2026. We need to be clear-eyed about what follows.
Ukraine fired U.S.-supplied missiles deeper into Russia after the United States authorized such attacks.
The document outlines a wider range of contingencies that might trigger nuclear weapons use and appears to lower the threshold for nuclear use.
There is no plausible military scenario, no morally defensible reason, nor any legally justifiable basis for threatening or using nuclear weapons first—if at all.
The Russian RS-28 Sarmat heavy intercontinental ballistic missile exploded in September at its test launch site.
Russia is expected to reserve the right to use nuclear weapons “when the enemy, using conventional weapons, creates a critical threat to our sovereignty,” President Vladimir Putin said.
Research suggests that the Kremlin could lose popular support if it used nuclear weapons in Ukraine.
The United States accused Iran of sending ballistic missiles to Russia, but Iran denied the accusation.
The situation at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant “remains precarious” due to regular explosions and drone attacks, Rafael Mariano Grossi said after the visit.