Should Britain go it alone on nukes?
From our UK edition
On 5 February, 2026, the last nuclear arms control treaty between the United States. and Russia expired. It was built for a different world, and its collapse cannot come as a surprise. In this new era of great power competition, it was in the interest of neither party to maintain it. Yet the problems that the international arms control treaties were set up to deal with have not gone away; in many respects they have become the issue de jour. Nuclear weapons have returned to the centre of geopolitics Today, two wars are being fought under the long shadow of nuclear weapons.
