On October 5, Atlantic Council vice president and Scowcroft Center senior director Matthew Kroenig was quoted in an article in the Wall Street Journal. He argues against extending the New START arms control agreement in order to expand the US nuclear arsenal to compete with China.
China, not Russia, is America’s foremost geopolitical rival, and Beijing is engaging in the most rapid nuclear weapons expansion since the 1960s. Bilateral arms control deals with Moscow alone won’t cut it.
