Running to Stand Still: Russian Nuclear Modernization after New START

John Maynard Keynes once wrote, “The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones,” an apt depiction of the current discourse and debate of what the world will look like now that the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) treaty has expired. The passing of New START marks the end of treaties formally limiting strategic nuclear weapons between the United States and Russia. While there are still a few multilateral agreements — like the Outer Space, Seabed, and Moon treaties — along with deals on missile launch notifications, for all intents and purposes traditional

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