Letting It Be an Arms Race
January 12, 2018
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As reported by Adam Mount in The Atlantic.

The article is sub-titled "A leaked draft of the Trump administration’s nuclear-weapons plan imagines a more dangerous world."

It begins:

As Americans question whether President Donald Trump has the judgment necessary to command the most capable nuclear arsenal on earth, the Pentagon is moving to order new, more usable nuclear options. Trump’s Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), a Pentagon document that sets the nation’s nuclear policy, demonstrates an aggressive shift that will add to the spiraling cost of the nuclear arsenal, raise the risk of a nuclear exchange, and plunge the country into a new arms race, according to a draft published by HuffPost three weeks ahead of its planned release. Though the document is marked “pre-decisional,” insiders have told me it reflects the final text.

Here is the link to the full article. 

Adam Mount is a senior fellow at the Federation of American Scientists.

Article originally appeared on Beyond Nuclear (https://archive.beyondnuclear.org/).
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