To: U.S. Congress
Tell Congress: Choose peace and people over a nuclear arms race
When New START expires on February 5, 2026, the U.S. and Russia, the world's two biggest nuclear powers, will no longer be bound by treaty limits or inspection requirements that have helped prevent nuclear arms racing for decades.
We already know this path leads to global devastation, but it’s not too late to change course. That’s why I urge you to publicly support U.S.-Russia negotiations to maintain, at a minimum, New START limits and verification measures, and to oppose a resumption of U.S. explosive nuclear testing.
We already know this path leads to global devastation, but it’s not too late to change course. That’s why I urge you to publicly support U.S.-Russia negotiations to maintain, at a minimum, New START limits and verification measures, and to oppose a resumption of U.S. explosive nuclear testing.
Why is this important?
The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) is the only remaining agreement limiting the expansion of the U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals.
On February 5, 2026, the treaty is set to expire. That would mean NO limits at all on the expansion of the U.S. or Russian nuclear arsenals for the first time in more than 50 years.
Trump clearly has no problem with recklessly dragging the U.S. into conflict abroad — launching a lawless coup in Venezuela, threatening to seize Greenland, and pushing us closer to another endless war in the Middle East, this time with Iran — in the new year alone.
If we allow New START to expire with no backup plan, Trump will have yet another avenue to fulfill his authoritarian goals — one that puts the entire world at risk.
History has shown us what a new nuclear arms race means: Communities poisoned, ecosystems destroyed, billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars funneled toward war profiteers, all for weapons that put us all at risk. It’s a fate we can avoid if we put collective pressure on lawmakers to act NOW and avoid a new nuclear arms race before it begins.