Biden’s arms control ambitions are welcome — but delivering them will not be easy

STOCKHOLM: A deadly pandemic to control, an urgent nationwide vaccination programme to roll out, an economic crisis to navigate, and political divisions and distrust deep enough to spark mob violence and terrorism — the 46th President of the United States faces a barrage of critical domestic challenges from day one.

Nevertheless, one matter of foreign policy will need to be at the top of his agenda: there will be barely two weeks left to save the 2010 strategic nuclear arms control treaty with Russia, New Start, from extinction.