U.S. Should Accept Putin’s Offer to Negotiate on Nukes by David Krieger

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  • Perspectives
    • U.S. Should Accept Putin’s Offer to Negotiate on Nukes by David Krieger
    • A New Generation Against the Bomb by Ray Acheson
    • Looking Reality in the Eye by Rick Wayman
    • Peace in Korea? Hope and Uncertainty Mix in the Wake of Kim-Moon Summit by Cesar Jaramillo
    • Panmunjeom Declaration by Moon Jae-in and Kim Jong-un
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Perspectives

U.S. Should Accept Putin’s Offer to Negotiate on Nukes

by David Krieger

The fuel for a new nuclear arms race was already on the fire, and a Russian strategic response was predictable, when the U.S. withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty [in 2002] and began developing and emplacing missile defense systems globally. The U.S. withdrawal and abrogation of the ABM Treaty may prove to be the greatest strategic blunder of the nuclear age.

As the two most powerful nuclear powers on the planet, with enough nuclear weapons to end civilization as we know it and possibly the human species, the two countries need to be engaged in productive and good-faith negotiations to end the nuclear weapons threat to each other and to all humanity.

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