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US Reassesses Nuclear Strategy After Treaty Expires

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By    |   Monday, 02 March 2026 06:53 AM EST

The U.S. and Russia find themselves outside a nuclear arms control framework for the first time since Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev signed the SALT I treaty in 1972.

Former top Trump nuclear weapons negotiator Marshall Billingslea told Newsmax that the New START Treaty, which expired Feb. 5, had been obsolete for years, largely because China's rapidly expanding nuclear program remained unconstrained by treaty limitations.

John Rossomando

John Rossomando is an experienced national security and counterterrorism analyst and researcher who writes for Newsmax and has been featured in numerous publications and has been consulted by numerous U.S. government agencies.

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The U.S. and Russia find themselves outside a nuclear arms control framework for the first time since Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev signed the SALT I treaty in 1972.
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