Arms Control is Dying, Long Live Arms Control

Nuclear arms control faces an existential crisis. The INF Treaty is about to end and the future of New START is also uncertain. But how should nuclear arms control be conceptualized to be effective today? In this article, Oliver Thränert argues that in the future it would have to be multilateral rather than bilateral. In addition, future negotiations should no longer focus solely on nuclear weapons, but should include other strategically important technologies.