OPINION — There was a flurry of arms control talk after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the Trump administration is “at the very beginning of conversations about renewing” the 2010 New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START). He made the comments during testimony April 10, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
The current agreement expires in February 2021, if it is not extended or a new one is signed but there are a lot of very good reasons to extend the current version, as a new comprehensive treaty is likely to take years to negotiate.
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