Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association, argues that a “global nuclear freeze” among the five permanent members of the UN Security Council—the U.S., U.K., France, Russia and China—is needed to halt the expansion of nuclear arsenals. He said that this “would not require new negotiations involving the United States and China, negotiations involving France and Britain.”
“It would still require the United States and Russia overcome their deep differences over” the Russian special military operation “in Ukraine so that they can focus on this crucial issue that affects their mutual security, which is maintaining common sense limits on the most dangerous of their nuclear arsenals—the strategic long-range nuclear weapons,” he told TASS in an interview.
