Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump at the Osaka G20 summit last June. Russia has offered to extend the nuclear arms control treaty with no new conditions. Photo: White House Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump at the Osaka G20 summit last June. Russia has offered to extend the nuclear arms control treaty with no new conditions. Photo: White House
Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump at the Osaka G20 summit last June. Russia has offered to extend the nuclear arms control treaty with no new conditions. Photo: White House
Will Saetren
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Will Saetren

Why Donald Trump should extend nuclear arms treaty with Russia now and worry about China later

  • With Trump reluctant to accept Russia’s extension offer as he focuses on including China in a new deal, the only nuclear arms control treaty left between the US and Russia is in danger of expiring, making the world a much more dangerous place

Will Saetren
Will Saetren

Updated: 1:57am, 22 Feb, 2020

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Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump at the Osaka G20 summit last June. Russia has offered to extend the nuclear arms control treaty with no new conditions. Photo: White House Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump at the Osaka G20 summit last June. Russia has offered to extend the nuclear arms control treaty with no new conditions. Photo: White House
Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump at the Osaka G20 summit last June. Russia has offered to extend the nuclear arms control treaty with no new conditions. Photo: White House
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Will Saetren

Will Saetren

Will Saetren (@WillSaetren) is a project lead at CRDF Global, where he specialises in nuclear security. He previously worked at the Institute for China-America Studies where he directed the organisation's portfolio on nuclear weapons policy. He is the author of Ghosts of the Cold War: Rethinking the Need for a New Nuclear Cruise Missile, and an alumnus of the Roger Hale fellowship at the Ploughshares Fund.