{"id":188838,"date":"2026-02-19T08:52:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T13:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/last-nuclear-weapons-limits-expired-pushing-world-toward-new-arms-race\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T09:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T14:05:12","slug":"last-nuclear-weapons-limits-expired-pushing-world-toward-new-arms-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/last-nuclear-weapons-limits-expired-pushing-world-toward-new-arms-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Last nuclear weapons limits expired \u2013 pushing world toward new arms race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/last-nuclear-weapons-limits-expired-pushing-world-toward-new-arms-race-275749\">Last nuclear weapons limits expired \u2013 pushing world toward new arms race<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/last-nuclear-weapons-limits-expired-pushing-world-toward-new-arms-race-275749\">https:\/\/theconversation.com\/last-nuclear-weapons-limits-expired-pushing-world-toward-new-arms-race-275749<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-19 08:52:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"theconversation.com\">theconversation.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>The New START treaty expired on February 5, 2026, removing the last agreed limits on U.S. and Russian nuclear forces.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The New START treaty had limitations on the number of strategic nuclear weapons, missiles, and bombers, required inspections, and banned interference with satellite monitoring.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The expiration of New START could lead to a potentially dangerous three-way nuclear arms competition between the U.S., China, and Russia.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Nuclear agreements offer benefits in four key areas: predictability, transparency, reduced first-strike incentives, and improved relations.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The absence of nuclear restraints has unraveled decades of international nuclear stability and raises concerns about increased nuclear conflict risks.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>President Trump has not initiated negotiations on follow-on accords and has shown pressure to build up U.S. nuclear forces.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Despite common national interests in avoiding unrestrained nuclear races, reaching a new multilateral accord is challenging due to political polarization and technological complexities.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>A strategic pause proposed by Putin to halt nuclear buildups while exploring new steps could offer time for negotiations and reduce the risks of an arms race.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last nuclear weapons limits expired \u2013 pushing world toward new arms race https:\/\/theconversation.com\/last-nuclear-weapons-limits-expired-pushing-world-toward-new-arms-race-275749 Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188839,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/718877\/original\/file-20260217-56-pl7hkn.jpg?ixlib=rb-4.1.0&rect=0%2C268%2C4635%2C2317&q=45&auto=format&w=1356&h=668&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188838"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188840,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188838\/revisions\/188840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}