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The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) expired on February 5th, leaving the US and Russia without a bilateral arms control treaty and increasing the risk of a nuclear arms race, as noted by TomDispatch regular Eric Ross.
According to Tom Engelhardt, who lived through the Cuban Missile Crisis, the threat of nuclear war has been a persistent presence in modern history, with over 200,000 people killed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, including an estimated 38,000 children.
As Jonathan Schell and Robert Jay Lifton have warned, nuclear war would constitute "genocide in its terminal form," making it a "crime against the future" that could render the earth unlivable, with thousands of omnicidal weapons already armed and ready for use.
