WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 -- Sen. Mark Kelly issued the following press release:
This week, during a Senate Armed Services Committee (https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/hearings/to-receive-testimony-on-strategic-competition-in-an-unconstrained-post-new-start-treaty-environment) hearing on the expiration of the New START treaty, the last major U.S.-Russia nuclear arms control treaty, Arizona Senator and Navy combat veteran Mark Kelly pressed witnesses on how the U.S. can maintain strategic stability, warning that a rush toward a costly Golden Dome missile defense could undermine deterrence and spur an unconstrained nuclear buildup by Russia and China. The treaty is set to expire today, February 5, 2026.
Kelly warned that the administration's ...