Just before Christmas, the U.S. Senate ratified the “New START” nuclear arms reduction treaty; this will enable not only U.S.-Russian cooperation in arms reductions and verification, but also cooperation in other areas that may ultimately be more important than the arms control measures themselves.

Russia, the United States, and other countries must cooperate to enable large-scale growth of nuclear energy around the world while achieving even higher standards of safety, security, and nonproliferation than are in place today. This will require building a new global framework for nuclear energy, including new or strengthened global institutions. The Belfer Center's Managing the Atom (MTA) Project and the Russian Research Center's Kurchatov Institute developed these and additional recommendations in a new collaborative report, published in October.

Neal Doyle's letter to the editor, responding to Arnaud de Borchgrave's recent column, "Pakistan nuclear thefts foiled" was published in The Washington Times.