Trump orders staff to prepare arms-control push with Russia and China
President Trump has ordered his administration to prepare a push for new arms-control agreements with Russia and China after bristling at the cost of a 21st-century nuclear arms race, according to administration officials.
The aim of the nascent effort, a senior administration official said, is to bring Russian nuclear weapons unregulated by treaties under new limits and persuade China to join an arms-control pact limiting or verifying its capabilities for the first time.
The initiative is still in its earliest stages, with officials preparing options for how to implement Trump’s order. It is unclear whether it will yield results in an administration that has locked horns with Moscow and Beijing and has less than two years left in its first term.
“The president’s direction is that we need to look at more-ambitious arms control that will deal with more weapons, and more than just us and Russia,” said the senior administration official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal policy deliberations. “What you’re going to see is more from the administration on how do we get to arms control that doesn’t just reflect a Cold War mentality.”
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So after fucking things up he's going to try to put the genie back in the bottle.
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