The end of new START can be a new beginning

The USS Georgia (SSGN-729), an Ohio-class guided-missile submarine armed with over 150 Tomahawk land-attack cruise missiles

Newly declassified volumes in the Foreign Relations of the United States series show how.

Recent press coverage of the expiration of the New START Treaty distorts the historical record of late Cold War nuclear diplomacy. “For the first time in decades,” reads one headline, “the U.S. and Russia have no limits on nuclear weapons.” That statement is misleading—at best.