Evening Edition: President Trump Wants New Arms Treaty With Russia

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🗓️ 5 February 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Today marked the expiration of the last remaining nuclear arms control treaty between Washington and Moscow: the 'New START' treaty. It was an agreement, signed under President Obama, between the United States and Russia which limited the number of weapons each country could deploy on their missiles, bombers and submarines. In a 'Truth Social' post, President Trump said that the U.S. should pursue a new agreement rather than extend the 15-year-old 'New START' treaty. FOX’s Eben Brown speaks with Andrea Stricker, deputy director of the Foundation of the Defense of Democracies' Nonproliferation Program and a FDD research fellow, who says the key to a new arms deal must include more nuclear armed countries like China. Click Here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Jimmy Fela. I'm Madison Allworth. I'm Trey Gowdy, and this is the Fox News rundown.
0:08.0	Thursday, February 5th, 2026. I'm Eben Brown. The last agreement between us and the Russians to contain
0:16.0	our nuclear weapons is expiring, and not everybody wants to make a new deal to avert nuclear war between
0:23.0	superpowers. We do have China now on the scene and the U.S. really does have to think about whether
0:28.9	an arms control agreement with Russia actually ties one hand behind its back when it needs to
0:34.3	counter and deter two near-peer nuclear competitors.
0:38.9	So both Russia and China.
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1:18.0	Today officially ends the agreement between the United States and Russia in which both agreed to control how many nuclear weapons each side possesses.
1:27.4	The deal called New
1:29.1	Start had been in effect since 2011, but was allowed to technically expire today. Why did it
1:35.3	expire? And why was no new agreement reached between the superpowers? That gets geopolitically
1:41.4	complicated. Even President Trump posted today that Russia had been grossly
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