Even at the height of their Cold War nuclear rivalry, the United States and the Soviet Union thrashed out a series of treaties to keep the arms race from spiraling out of control.
Though they agreed on little else, leaders in Moscow and Washington saw value in talks ¡ª from 1969 until long after the Soviet collapse in 1991 ¡ª to create a stable and ?predictable framework limiting the size of their nuclear arsenals.
Now the last U.S.-Russia nuclear treaty, New START, is just weeks away from expiring on ?Feb. 5, and what comes next is uncertain. The two countries, preoccupied by the war in Ukraine, have not held ?any talks on a successor treaty.
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