[The Trump administration is reviewing whether it will reaffirm the goal of a world without nuclear weapons, a White House aide said, referring to an aim embraced by previous Republican and Democratic presidents and required by a key arms control treaty (NPT).]
https://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/34748061/trump-questions-world-without-nukes-goal/#page1 Trump questions world without nukes goal AAP on March 22, 2017, 5:46 am *The Trump administration is reviewing whether it will reaffirm the goal of a world without nuclear weapons, a White House aide said, referring to an aim embraced by previous Republican and Democratic presidents and required by a key arms control treaty.* [Emphasis in original.] Christopher Ford, the National Security Council's senior director for weapons of mass destruction and counter-proliferation, said an examination of whether global nuclear disarmament "is a realistic goal," would be conducted as part of a wider assessment called the Nuclear Policy Review. The news comes as White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer described the threat of North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile programs as "grave and escalating." Ford also said the administration is reviewing responses to Russia's deployment of nuclear-capable cruise missiles, which Washington has denounced as a violation of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty. He downplayed the chances of new US-Russia strategic nuclear arms cuts and said Washington would for now adhere to the Iran nuclear deal. In negotiations scheduled to open next week, the administration also will oppose - as the Obama administration did - an international treaty abolishing nuclear weapons, he said. Your Mortgage Should Start With a 3! Find out How Home Loans Australia Sponsored Ford, the only senior nuclear policy official appointed by President Donald Trump since he took office in January, spoke to a nuclear policy conference put on annually by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a Washington-based think tank. His comments were the first by a top administration official that gave some indication of White House thinking on nuclear arms policy following a series of provocative comments and tweets that Trump made during and after the 2016 presidential campaign. Trump has said that while would like to see nuclear weapons abolished, he wants the United States to have an unrivalled arsenal. He also said that the United States has "fallen behind" in its nuclear capabilities. Trump has supported the development of nuclear weapons by Japan, South Korea and Saudi Arabia, called for using nuclear arms against the Islamic State militant group and denounced the Iran nuclear deal as "a disaster" that he would "rip up." Ford, a lawyer who has served as a Republican congressional staffer and a State Department arms control official, said he could not comment on many issues until the Nuclear Posture Review, or NPR, and other security and foreign policies reviews are completed. -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
