Posted: 16th March 2025
An Unreliable America Means More Countries Want the Bomb. Without credible U.S. security guarantees, nuclear proliferation is likely to increase rapidly across Europe and Asia. U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent foreign-policy moves have alienated the country’s traditional allies in Europe while stirring glee in Moscow. While it’s a catastrophic development for Ukrainian security and democracy, this paradigmatic shift portends much larger risks for global security. The most pressing is the threat of rampant nuclear proliferation that the Trump administration’s actions will elicit. While on the surface it might seem as though a warmer relationship between two of the world’s largest nuclear powers could reduce the risk of nuclear war, the opposite is true. We are on the precipice of a global turn toward nuclear instability, in which many countries will be newly incentivized to build their own arsenals, increasing the risk of nuclear use, terrorist subversion, and accidental launch. Countries like South Korea, Japan, Iran, and Saudi Arabia are all so-called nuclear latent states that could potentially build nuclear weapons quickly—as are Germany, Belgium, Italy,
Foreign Policy 14th March 2025
Sophie Bolt – general secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament – Europe’s ‘nuclear umbrella’ risks catastrophic escalation. As Macron and Merz propose French nuclear-armed jets be stationed in Poland and Germany, the dangerous implications for peace and the possibility of nuclear confrontation grow.
Morning Star 15th March 2025
Chancellor said the world ‘has changed before our eyes’. Chancellor Rachel Reeves has criticised the SNP’s opposition to Trident, insisting the nuclear deterrent is more important now than it has been “for a long time”. Ms Reeves said the world “has changed before our eyes in the last few months” and stressed boosting defence and security was the first duty of any government.
Scotsman 14th March 2025