Creeping Toward the New START Limits

By Greg Thielmann

The latest data on strategic weapons exchanged between Russia and the United States under terms of the 2010 New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) shows movement by both countries toward the three key limits of the treaty. In spite of bilateral tensions over events in Ukraine, these data from the beginning of March and the fact that subsequent on-site inspections continue suggest that treaty implementation is still on track.

The Mixed Message of the Senate Letter On the Iran Nuclear Talks

By Daryl G. Kimball (UPDATED 8:00pm)

Clearly, Congress has an important role in implementing any comprehensive, final-phase agreement between the P5+1 and Iran to "ensure Iran's nuclear programme will be exclusively peaceful." Those talks are now underway in Vienna.

In that role, members of the Senate and House have a responsibility to support the efforts of the P5+1 on the basis of a clear understanding and realistic expectation for what the negotiations can deliver and for what is necessary to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran.

Ukraine, Russia, and the NPT

By Daryl G. Kimball (UPDATED: March 9)

President Vladimir Putin's decision to send Russian military forces into the Crimean region of Ukraine earlier this month—on the basis of the claim that Ukraine's discredited former President Viktor Yanukovich requested Russian intervention—has put the world on edge and created one of the most serious political confrontations between Russia and the West since the end of the Cold War.

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