The Dec. 5 expiration of our previous arms control agreement with Russia, START 1, has brought to a standstill the on-the-ground monitoring and verification of Russian nuclear weapons arsenals responsible for ensuring U.S. national security for the past 15 years. The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty was initially signed in April, in an attempt to recover the monitoring and verification regimes from the expired START 1 agreement.

Mike Lee has more flips than an Olympic diver. First he supported compromising the health of Utahns by supporting renewed nuclear weapons explosions in Nevada. Then he was against nuclear weapons testing by detonation and for ratifying the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. Now, Mike Lee has flipped once again and voiced opposition to a nuclear weapons treaty that will make sure that Utahns are never again submitted to the dangers of radioactive fallout.