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November 1, 2018
Trump cites Russian cheating while international allies and rivals decry his action.
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November 1, 2018
Trump signs defense-related spending bills.
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November 1, 2018
Earlier this year, President Donald Trump told reporters that he wanted to work with Russian President Vladimir Putin “to discuss the arms race, which is getting out of control.” He characterized the costly nuclear weapons upgrade programs being pursued by each side as “a very, very bad policy.”
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October 21, 2018
Under the influence of his new National Security Advisor, John Bolton, Trump announced Saturday at a campaign rally that he will “terminate” a key nuclear arms control agreement that helped end the Cold War race–the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty in response to a long-running dispute over Russian noncompliance with the treaty. Here's why that's counterproductive.
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October 9, 2018
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October 9, 2018
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October 1, 2018
Will the Trump administration let the treaty expire?
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October 1, 2018
Stanley Kubrick’s classic 1964 film “Dr. Strangelove” delivers an eerily accurate depiction of the absurd logic and catastrophic risks of U.S. and Russian Cold War nuclear deterrence strategy, but for one key detail: President Merkin Muffley was wrong when he said, “It is the avowed policy of our country never to strike first with nuclear weapons.” But it should be.
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August 13, 2018
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August 8, 2018
Trump and Putin have an important opportunity to put the brakes on a new, potentially more dangerous, arms race.