We explain why the United States and Russia have ripped up a Cold War-era nuclear missile treaty, leaving analysts fearing a potential arms race with global ramifications.
Dr Rublee said an arms race could be on the horizon if there was no diplomatic way around the issue of rectifying the treaty.
According to Ramesh Thakur, director of the Centre for Nuclear Non-Proliferation at the Australian National University, NATO stands to lose more than Russia by the US pulling out of the treaty."Russia will be able to move ahead rapidly with the development and deployment of short- and medium-range ground-launched nuclear-capable missiles," he wrote in an article on The Conversation.
Both the US and Russia are also driven by concerns about China and other nuclear states that are not bound by the treaty.
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