A consensus has grown in Washington that the next nuclear arms negotiation with Moscow should aim to limit all U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons, not just deployed strategic ones. That would raise challenging issues. Moscow may insist that it would put non-strategic weapons on the table only if Washington addresses issues of concern to Russia, particularly, missile defense.
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A woman wearing a face mask to protect against the coronavirus disease walks along a bridge in front of a tower of the Kremlin and the Russian Foreign Ministry building on the background in central Moscow on Oct. 13, 2020.
