An arms control treaty for Donald: Is Putin preparing an October surprise?

Earlier this year, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists set its Doomsday clock to 100 seconds to midnight. It is the latest the morbid timer has ever shown — closer to “midnight” than the most famous “near miss” of September 1983, when Soviet strategic rocket officer Stanislav Petrov ignored multiple faulty missile launch warnings, and averted likely Armageddon. The Bulletin’s January 2020 assessment was hyperbolic, but the security picture...