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“Disarmament … is a continuing imperative.”
That public statement is not from an ideologue of the political left, but by outgoing President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his Farewell Address to the nation, delivered six decades ago as he prepared to leave office.
President Joe Biden has returned arms control negotiations with Russia to status as a top policy priority. He seeks a five-year extension of the New START Treaty signed in 2010 by President Barack Obama and Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev. The agreement, which was about to expire, limits nuclear warheads on each side to 1,550, plus limitations on missiles and bombers.
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