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President Trump says the US will pull out of a nuclear treaty

24 October 2018

Donald Trump said this week that the US will pull out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, saying both Russia and China possess the missiles it bans


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Trump pulling the US out of a nuclear treaty is anything but smart

24 October 2018

Ripping up the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty will spur a debilitating and dangerous arms race at a time the world can least afford it


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Trump’s Iran U-turn could restart the global nuclear arms race

16 May 2018

The US has demonstrated that it cannot be trusted to stick to its word on arms control deals. The result may be a return to the dark days of growing nuclear arsenals


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Maths can make sense of Trump’s ‘madman’ North Korea strategy

6 November 2017

Outlandish threats in the standoff between North Korea and Donald Trump are bluffs whose main aim is to bolster support at home, says game theorist Petros Sekeris


Front cover of Iranian newspaper reporting Trump's decision

Trump’s U-turn may see Iran join North Korea as a nuclear state

16 October 2017

In refusing to recertify the Iran nuclear deal, US president Donald Trump risks creating another North Korea – as another Republican president did before him


A man watches news of a North Korean rocket launch

North Korea claims test of an intercontinental ballistic missile

4 July 2017

The missile was launched into Japanese waters, but analysts suggest it could potentially be used to hit Alaska, raising the stakes once more in North Korea’s nuclear efforts


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