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NNSA Won’t Have Tech to Verify Russian Nuke Forces In Time for New START Successor Treaty

Defense Daily Staff

Monday, October 2nd, 2023

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NNSA Won’t Have Tech to Verify Russian Nuke Forces In Time for New START Successor Treaty

Kremlin photo of Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2018.

If another nuclear arms control treaty replaces the New START treaty that expires in 2026, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) will need new technologies to keep track of Russia’s large and widely dispersed nuclear arsenal, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office. The NNSA has started investing in “new, more advanced and more intrusive verification technologies, some of which may be ready and suitable for a treaty that follows a New START successor, a possible future…

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