The risk of a nuclear war breaking out is hugely high, according to UN disarmament experts, who say that the risk is at its highest since World War II, citing growing modernization efforts and changes in the arms control landscape, like the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty falling apart.
These concerns are taken seriously by the American public, even if the government treats it as just another excuse to spend a half trillion dollars on new weapons. Recent polls show Americans are strongly in favor of restraining the US nuclear posture.
80 percent of Americans favor extending the New START Treaty beyond its 2021 expiration, and roughly two-thirds want the US to stay within the INF Treaty. The US is already moved out of INF, and has not begun negotiations on extending New START.
Perhaps most interesting though, the polls show majority support for limits on presidential power over the nuclear arsenal, believing that a nuclear first-strike should require Congressional authorization.
Of course, Americans want arms control .. DJT made a big mistake pulling out of the Nuclear Arms Treaty not long ago. There was nothing wrong with that treaty, so why throw it away? He didn’t ask us if he should scrap the Nuclear Arms Treaty with Russia or not. We wanted him to keep the treaty, not scrap it, just as he had scrapped the Nuclear Deal Treaty with Iran a couple of years ago.
It’s time that DJT negotiate with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, on a better Nuclear Arms Treaty, not take bad advice from the warmongers in his administration. They don’t have America’s interests at heart, only Israel’s.