Putin announced that he's suspending the new start treaty James do you see that as having a significant impact on the likelihood of the use of nuclear weapons or proliferation in general? The immediate effect of Russia's suspension of new start would be the loss of notification so under the treaty the US and Russia required to exchange notifications with one another when strategic weapons are put into service. I think it's pretty unlikely we'll even be able to get any kind of politically binding agreement to replace it, says John Defterios.
To mark a year since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Galen Druke brings back two experts who first joined the podcast when the war began. Samuel Charap is a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation and author of the book “Everyone Loses: The Ukraine Crisis and the Ruinous Contest for Post-Soviet Eurasia.” James Acton is a physicist and co-director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Together they describe why the war has not turned out as originally expected, what the risks of escalation are today and how the conflict might come to an end.