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Russia pulls out of New Start nuclear treaty – we've already seen how such agreements have limited aggression against Ukraine

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par Dan Plesch, Professor at the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, SOAS, University of London

Vladimir Putin’s decision to pull out of the New Start nuclear weapons treaty with the United States will have predictable responses.

Stocks in defence corporations will rise at the prospect of new markets for nuclear missiles. Disciples of deterrence will reassure the public that arms control was never really needed. Those who fear the end of the world as we know it will sound the alarm – playing into Putin’s hands, some will say, by causing alarm…

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