Arms Control Is Not Dead Yet

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1. Given China’s rapidly expanding array of nuclear warheads and delivery vehicles, the time to negotiate a new nuclear arms treaty between Russia, China, and the United States is now, argues [Rose Gottemoeller](https://www.hoover.org/profiles/rose-gottemoeller) i *Foreign Affairs*. With the only remaining nuclear arms treaty between the US and Russia set to expire next year, and China and Russia set to reach nuclear parity in deployed weapons by as early as 2035, there are multiple compelling reasons for the Trump administration to reach out and begin negotiations on a new triparty deal. “Trump should not waste the opportunity he has now,” Gottemoeller writes. “Even if the hurdle of Senate ratification proves too high for the United States to enter a legally binding nuclear arms treaty—and it may not, given the strong influence Trump exercises over Congress—well-crafted political agreements with China and Russia could still be effective.”

2. What nation, looking at the actions of USA and Russia over the last decade, would see nuclear armament as anything other than critical to national security.

3. Its not dead, just badly beaten, maimed, shot, burned, in ICU hook to more machines than Adam Smasher.

4. Bullshit. We can generally assess Russia’s defense budget, generally assess what they MUST be spending to maintain the pace of ops in Ukraine, and then infer how what’s left must be allocated to nukes. The math yields a Russian nuke force lacking published headline capabilities. It’s at best 1/4 the size, but in all likelihood 1/10.

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