Washington/Moscow, Feb. 6 -- The ending of the final US-Russia arms treaty has led to renewed fears of another decades long nuclear arms race between the two military superpowers, as the agreement lapse allows both Washington and Moscow - whose total arsenal accounts for 90% of all nuclear bombs - with enough leeway to pursue independent nuclear policies with little binding limits.
"The worst case is it spirals and then some unforeseen or foreseeable incident touches off a conflict that escalates rapidly to a nuclear conflict," warned Thomas Countryman, a former acting US undersecretary of state for arms control and international security, reports CNN.
The treaty in question, New START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty), came into effect 1...