End of US-Russia Nuclear Pact Inspires Limits on New Weapons

Feb. 3, 2026, 7:31 PM UTC

The last remaining nuclear arms control treaty between the US and Russia will expire Wednesday without any concrete negotiations or agreement to place limits on the world’s two largest nuclear powers.

Even so, the expiration of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty this week is starting to build consensus in Congress and with the Trump administration that a new negotiation and agreement must include limits on Russia’s new types of nuclear weapons and China’s rapidly growing arsenal.

“The New START treaty was negotiated in a bygone era—15 years go,” Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) said Tuesday.

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