| исчерпать себя | peter out (A year after the speech, the US and Russia signed the New Start agreement, restricting both sides to 1,550 deployed strategic warheads and bombs, down by about 30% from previously agreed limits. However, the "Prague agenda" petered out. Aspirations to cut the strategic stockpile by another third, unilaterally if necessary, were abandoned in the face of congressional resistance, North Korea's growing nuclear weapons programme and worsening relations with Russia.  theguardian.com eugenealper) |
