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Congress plays critical role in averting nuclear armageddon


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Just one week after taking office, President Biden reached out to Vladimir Putin seeking an extension of the New Start Treaty regarding nuclear arms control, even as he chastised the Kremlin for recent provocations ranging from the Solar Winds cyberattack of federal government computers to the poisoning and jailing of opposition activist Alexei Navalny.
That exchange reveals how complex and difficult arms control talks have become in this era of renewed great power competition and rising levels of geopolitical tensions not seen since the darkest days of the Cold War. With the United States and Russia in holding about 90 percent of nuclear warheads in the world, and conducting aggressive modernization of their nuclear arsenals with advanced technology, the future of humanity itself depends on the successful management of such escalating tensions and limiting the new threat posed by these ultimate weapons. ....

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Conversation with my counter part. we began the day with a very serious evaluation of whether or not it was doable. i made it crystal clear if thing dz not change we were going to go home. we were going to have to wrap it up. things did change. we managed to obviously move forward and make progress. but there were some down moments. there were some moments of great pessimism. what i m proud of is while all the tweets were going on about concessions and about what we were doing, we never moved away from core principles. we accomplished the fundamental goal the president set which is to shut off each of the pathways to a nuclear weapon. so i believe without any doubt whatsoever and i spent 29 years in the senate. i was on the arms control observer group. i dealt with all the debates of the starting agreement, the annex missile and so forth. ....

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