According to the LA Times, if new START is not ratified by the Senate, it will be for three reasons:
- Missile defense concerns
- Nuclear modernization concerns
- Verification concerns
Not mentioned are a few other areas critics bring forward:
- Lack of an integrated security effect–Russia’s ten-to-one tactical nuclear weapons are ignored
- Lack of effect on nuclear proliferation
- Weak or non-effect of a bilateral treaty in a multilateral nuclear world
The second group tends to be glossed over by the arms-control industry.
