President Trump has a lot on his plate with the planned July 16 summit with Putin. One of those things should be nuclear arms control, specifically extending the New START Treaty and working with Moscow to ensure that other treaties limiting nuclear arms remain respected with both countries in compliance.

New START, the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, is a nuclear arms control treaty that entered into force in 2011 and limits the nuclear arsenals of both Russia and the United Sates. The goal of the treaty is reducing competition and mitigating an arms race between the two nations.