Next steps for nuclear disarmament

As the next step toward nuclear disarmament, the US and Russia should begin negotiations on a Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) III, even though the Duma has not approved the ratification of START II, says Mitsuru Kurosawa, professor of the Osaka School of Public Policy, Osaka University. In addition, the United States and Russia should pursue bilateral treaties on fissile cut‐offs, transparency, and irreversibility, and on non‐strategic nuclear weapons. No‐first‐use and negative security assurances among nuclear weapon states should also be considered.