the ‘only’ guarantee against global war, nuclear weapons

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Russia says nuclear weapons the ‘only’ guarantee against global war
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Updated 24 June 2026
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• The last nuclear arms control treaty between Russia and the United States, New START, expired in February, releasing restrictions on the world’s two largest nuclear powers

MOSCOW: Nuclear weapons are the “only” bulwark preventing the world from slipping into a global war, the Kremlin said Wednesday amid fears of a fresh multi-country arms race.
The last nuclear arms control treaty between Russia and the United States, New START, expired in February, releasing restrictions on the world’s two largest nuclear powers.
There have been no signs so far of either side moving to renew or replace the accord, even though both parties agreed to reestablish high-level military talks.
Speaking at a foreign policy forum in Moscow, the Kremlin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the global security system was “eroding.”
“In fact, we have nothing left in this world apart from nuclear deterrence. It’s the only thing that protects the world from a global war,” he said.
“As technology is developing, it is already clear that new types of non-nuclear weapons will emerge, but they may eventually match nuclear weapons in destructive power,” he added.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly invoked nuclear rhetoric throughout his four-year offensive on Ukraine, triggering charges of reckless sabre-rattling from Europe and the United States.
US President Donald Trump has pressed for a new treaty to include China, whose nuclear arsenal is growing but still far smaller than that of Russia or the United States.
Beijing has publicly rejected the pressure.
Moscow says if China is brought into a new deal, then so too should Washington’s nuclear allies, Britain and France.
The expiration of New START marked the first time in decades that there has not been a treaty in force to curtail the deployment of nuclear weapons.
Signed in 2010, it was the last in a series of Cold War-era arms control agreements, restricting Moscow and Washington to 1,550 deployed nuclear warheads each.
Before it lapsed, both countries repeatedly accused each other of failing to adhere to the deal.

모스크바: 크렘린궁은 수요일, 새로운 다국적 군비 경쟁에 대한 우려가 커지는 가운데, 핵무기가 세계 대전을 막는 "유일한" 보루라고 강조했습니다.
러시아와 미국 간의 마지막 핵무기 감축 조약인 신전략무기감축조약(New START)은 지난 2월 만료되어 세계 최대 핵보유국인 두 나라에 대한 제재가 해제되었습니다.
양측이 고위급 군사 회담 재개에 합의했음에도 불구하고, 현재까지 어느 쪽도 조약 갱신이나 대체 조약 체결에 대한 움직임을 보이지 않고 있습니다.

모스크바에서 열린 외교 정책 포럼에서 드미트리 페스코프 크렘린궁 대변인은 세계 안보 체계가 "무너지고 있다"고 말했습니다.

그는 "사실상, 이 세상에는 핵 억지력 외에는 남은 것이 없다. 그것만이 세계를 세계 대전으로부터 지켜줄 유일한 것이다"라고 강조했습니다.

또한 "기술이 발전함에 따라 새로운 유형의 비핵무기가 등장할 것이 분명하며, 이러한 무기들은 결국 핵무기와 맞먹는 파괴력을 갖게 될 수도 있다"고 덧붙였습니다.

러시아의 블라디미르 푸틴 대통령은 우크라이나에 대한 4년간의 공세 내내 핵 위협 발언을 반복적으로 내뱉어 유럽과 미국으로부터 무모한 무력시위라는 비난을 받았습니다.
도널드 트럼프 미국 대통령은 핵무기 보유량이 증가하고 있지만 여전히 러시아나 미국보다 훨씬 적은 중국을 포함하는 새로운 조약 체결을 압박해 왔습니다.
베이징은 이러한 압력을 공개적으로 거부했습니다.
모스크바는 중국이 새로운 협정에 포함된다면 워싱턴의 핵 동맹국인 영국과 프랑스도 포함되어야 한다고 주장합니다.
신전략무기감축조약(New START)의 만료는 수십 년 만에 처음으로 핵무기 배치를 제한하는 조약이 발효되지 않은 상황을 의미했습니다.
2010년에 체결된 이 조약은 냉전 시대 군비 통제 협정 중 마지막 조약으로, 모스크바와 워싱턴의 핵탄두 배치량을 각각 1,550개로 제한했습니다.
조약 만료 전, 양국은 서로 조약을 준수하지 않았다고 반복적으로 비난했습니다.