Feb. 11 (UPI) -- The party is over regarding strategic nuclear arms control.
It is almost inevitable that a new strategic nuclear arms race will be beginning or already is underway. With the expiration of the 2010 New START Treaty last week, limits on the 1,550 deployable nuclear warheads in 700 air-, sea- and land-based launching systems have been lifted.
Both the United States and Russia were allowed 100 non-deployable launchers. The United States has approximately 5,200 deployed and stored nuclear weapons. Russia has about 5,500.
On Friday, Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Thomas G. DiNanno delivered key statements at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, Switzerland.
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