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Friday, October 26, 2018 10:56:57 PM
Trump Hates International Treaties. His Latest Target: A Nuclear-Weapons Deal With Russia.
The next casualty of President Trump’s suspicion of multilateral deals could be a 30-year-old arms accord with Russia.
Uri Friedman
Oct 24, 2018
When Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev signed an arms-control agreement in 1987, the
mood was solemn. It is markedly different today.Reuters
When Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev solemnly signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty at the White House, the leaders of the world’s superpowers hailed the transition from an era of “mounting risk of nuclear war” to one marked by the “demilitarization of human life.”
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“We’re in a process of sleepwalking into a new nuclear-arms race” with no restraints, Burt told me. When he served in government, in the 1980s, there was “a hypersensitivity [to] and awareness of the dangers of a nuclear conflict.” No longer.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/10/trump-withdraw-inf-treaty-why/573715/
The next casualty of President Trump’s suspicion of multilateral deals could be a 30-year-old arms accord with Russia.
Uri Friedman
Oct 24, 2018
When Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev signed an arms-control agreement in 1987, the
mood was solemn. It is markedly different today.Reuters
When Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev solemnly signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty at the White House, the leaders of the world’s superpowers hailed the transition from an era of “mounting risk of nuclear war” to one marked by the “demilitarization of human life.”
[...]
“We’re in a process of sleepwalking into a new nuclear-arms race” with no restraints, Burt told me. When he served in government, in the 1980s, there was “a hypersensitivity [to] and awareness of the dangers of a nuclear conflict.” No longer.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/10/trump-withdraw-inf-treaty-why/573715/
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