Democrats and arms control experts are warning that the United States’ nuclear weapons reduction treaty with Russia that expires Thursday needs to be extended soon.
But Hill Republicans and the Trump administration are in no rush, arguing the treaty falls far short of what is needed to combat today’s nuclear threats.
“When New START goes away, there will be nothing, just nothing, to stop a dangerous new nuclear arms race,” Sens. Ed Markey (Mass.), a leading Democrat on the Senate’s nuclear weapons working group, said Wednesday.
