Popular Mechanics:

President Joe Biden’s administration has signaled that the United States is willing to extend a critical arms control treaty with Russia. If Russia agrees, the move would grant a five-year extension to the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), which issues strict limits on the number of nuclear weapons either country can deploy on land, air, and sea.

Arms control advocates feared a collapse of the treaty could lead to a dramatic increase in the number of nuclear weapons that both sides are ready to use.

The U.S. and Russia signed the New START Treaty in 2010. The treaty is designed to lower the number of deployed nuclear weapons—i.e., nukes onboard ballistic missile submarines at sea, bombers parked at alert status, and intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) sitting in hardened silos…

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