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A new and challenging nuclear arms race is emerging, as the US and Russia's Nuclear Risk Reduction Centers (NRRC) exchange messages on missile and bomber movements.
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- The nuclear arms race is looming and will be harder to stop than the contest of the Cold War.
- The direct link between the Nuclear Risk Reduction Centres (NRRC) of the US and Russia has ceased to function, signaling the breakdown of global nuclear arms control.
- Under the New START treaty, there were regular notifications and updates on warhead numbers between the two countries, but these have now stopped.
- On-site inspections have also not taken place since March 2020.
- The lack of communication and transparency between the two biggest nuclear powers raises concerns about the future of nuclear arms control.
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A new and challenging nuclear arms race is emerging, surpassing the difficulties of the Cold War. The US and Russia's Nuclear Risk Reduction Centers (NRRC) previously exchanged messages on missile and bomber movements.
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A new nuclear arms race is on the horizon, and it will be more difficult to prevent than the Cold War contest. The Nuclear Risk Reduction Centers (NRRC) of the United States and Russia, which used to exchange messages about missile and bomber movements
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Aug 29th 2023
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Americas State Department and Russias Ministry of Defence, officials
take turns pinging each other every couple of hours to check the line
is working. Then, almost always, silence. It is the dying heartbeat of
global nuclear arms control.
Until
March the direct link between the Nuclear Risk Reduction Centres
nrrc
s) of the worlds two biggest nuclear powers was
alive with messages informing each other about the movement of missiles
and bombers. Under New
start
, which came into force in
2011 and which includes caps on long-range nuclear weapons, there were
2,000-odd such notifications in 2022. No longer. The half-yearly updates
on warhead numbers have stopped, too. And there have been no on-site
inspections since March 2020.
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