With a few notable exceptions, Democratic and Republican presidents alike have generally tried to restrain if not reverse nuclear proliferation since nuclear weapons came into existence. But in the era of Donald Trump, that history may count for nothing.
President-elect Trump apparently has little time for his country’s fragile nuclear weapons deal with Iran, and his alarmingly permissive statements about the wider proliferation of nuclear weapons fly in the face of US nonproliferation policy since 1945.
US presidents have been trying to contain the spread of nuclear weapons since the dawn of the atomic age. There were missteps along the way: …read more
Source: The Conversation
