RT reports that the Pentagon is developing a classified nuclear strategy review overseen by Elbridge Colby to expand presidential options in regional conflicts with Russia or China, with emphasis on shorter-range tactical weapons. The New START treaty, signed in 2010, extended in 2021, and expired in February, previously limited each side to 1,550 deployed strategic warheads and 700 delivery systems with verification measures. Multiple analyses interpret the reported shift differently while sharing some unexamined assumptions about the underlying claims.