Trump’s nuclear threat policy is moving US in the right direction
This administration’s tenure may be rife with staff turnover, tweetstorms and scandals, but there’s one thing it’s gotten right so far: Its nuclear strategy is a well-reasoned response to the most pressing nuclear threats in the world today.
The new Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), released in February 2018, made a splash among critics who wanted to portray the strategy document as wildly divergent from previous strategies. The New York Times editorial board took potshots at the missile defense objectives, and a columnist at the Washington Post declared that the NPR “announced a renewed round in the nuclear arms race, one inevitably bringing us ever closer to the unthinkable — a nuclear war of catastrophic consequences.”
[Read the full op-ed over at The Hill].
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