El art\u00edculo del New York Times analiza las consecuencias de la finalizaci\u00f3n el 05Feb26 del\u00a0tratado New START, \u00faltimo acuerdo para el Control de Armas Nucleares entre EEUU y Rusia, vigente desde 1972. Esta decisi\u00f3n marca un hito hist\u00f3rico, ya que por primera vez en m\u00e1s de 50 a\u00f1os, las dos mayores potencias at\u00f3micas del mundo operan sin restricciones en sus arsenales estrat\u00e9gicos. El texto destaca la creciente preocupaci\u00f3n de expertos y organismos como la ONU, ante el riesgo inminente de una nueva carrera armamentista global. La desaparici\u00f3n del tratado, no solo elimina los topes de misiles y ojivas, sino tambi\u00e9n de los mecanismos de inspecci\u00f3n mutua que garantizaban transparencia. En un contexto de alta tensi\u00f3n por el conflicto en Ucrania y la expansi\u00f3n militar de China, el art\u00edculo advierte que el mundo entra en una era de profunda incertidumbre nuclear, donde la estabilidad depender\u00e1 m\u00e1s de la moderaci\u00f3n pol\u00edtica de los estados y no de las obligaciones jur\u00eddicas.<\/p>\n
The deadline has been looming over Washington and Moscow for years.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, the last nuclear arms control treaty between the United States and Russia expired. For the first time since 1972, it leaves both superpowers with no limits on the size or structure of their arsenals, at the very moment both are planning new generations of nuclear weapons and newly evasive means of delivering the deadly warheads.<\/p>\n
Despite a new era of superpower confrontation, talks over a new treaty \u2014 or even an informal extension of the current one \u2014 never got off the ground, frozen by the war in Ukraine. When President Trump was asked in January why he had not taken up President Vladimir V. Putin\u2019s offer for a one-year informal extension, he shrugged.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf it expires, it expires,\u201d he told The New York Times in an interview. \u201cWe\u2019ll do a better agreement\u201d after the expiration, he insisted, adding that China, which has the world\u2019s fastest-growing nuclear arsenal, and \u201cother parties\u201d should be part of any future accord. The Chinese have made clear they are not interested.<\/p>\n
On Thursday afternoon, after the New START treaty\u2019s expiration, Mr. Trump reiterated his call for a new accord, denouncing the previous one as \u201ca badly negotiated deal\u201d and declaring on social media that \u201cwe should have our nuclear experts work on a new, improved, and modernized treaty that can last long into the future.\u201d But he said nothing about agreeing with Mr. Putin to freeze American and Russian arsenals at current levels, leaving open the possibility of a renewed arms race.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n