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USA and Russia should talk to each other again

The last disarmament treaty between the US and Russia is about to end. There are plenty of reasons for the deep distrust of the two great powers. But the argument that you therefore cannot maintain a dialogue and conclude contracts is misleading.

Troops were once ready at this missile silo in North Dakota to carry out a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union if necessary. Today the military installation is a museum. The ICBMs stationed here were scrapped due to a disarmament treaty.

Jim Lo Scalzo / EPA

“A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be waged,” declared the American President Ronald Reagan and the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Geneva 35 years ago. The summit of the two heralded the end of the Cold War. But nuclear weapons did not disappear from the world, and that left the risk that they would eventually be used.

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