Redesigning Nuclear Arms Control for New Realities
Nuclear arms control is more needed than ever. Building an arms control architecture that is fit for today’s security challenges requires a coherent, innovative, and long-term political strategy. A coordinated transatlantic approach for such a strategy is necessary to help redesign nuclear arms control for new realities, argue Anna Péczeli, Brad Roberts, Jonas Schneider, Adam Thomson, Oliver Thränert, and Heather Williams in this CSS Policy Perspective Special Edition.
France’s President Emmanuel Macron with US President Joe Biden and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson at a NATO summit in Brussels in June 2021. Brendan Smialowski / Pool
Key Points:
- The pursuit of viable long-term arms control strategies adapted to the current strategic environment should fully engage both the United States and its allies, both European and Asian.
- It is necessary to enhance the human capital, engagement mechanisms and institutions required for developing arms control frameworks.
- Innovative arms control calls for more political will and leadership from both sides of the Atlantic, but today it is most needed in Europe, where intellectual burden sharing is as important as military burden sharing.