
On Wednesday, top U.S. officials in Washington warned against cutting the U.S. nuclear arsenal or agreeing to extend a nuclear arms control treaty with Russia without assurances that Moscow’s promised warhead freeze would actually happen. “[E]ach piece of our triad is essential, but they’re also complementary,” Adm. Charles Richards, commander of U.S. Strategic Command, said in recorded remarks to the audience of a virtual conference hosted by the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies. “If I lost any part…