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> In the nuclear realm, national leaders have ended or undermined several major arms control treaties and negotiations during the last year > US-Russia coopera
by slumdev 7y ago
> In the nuclear realm, national leaders have ended or undermined several major arms control treaties and negotiations during the last year
> US-Russia cooperation on arms control and disarmament is all but nonexistent
Moving the clock is justified.
Russia is developing new hypersonic missiles and missiles with multiple warheads designed specifically to evade missile defense systems. The U.S. is deploying more of our (potentially now ineffective) missile defense systems in places where we had promised not to do so.
The Iran deal is dead. Nationalism is on the rise everywhere, and nuclear states like Pakistan, India, and China are not immune.
The world is at greater risk now than at any point since the Cold War.