Stop Nuclear Arms Race

Excellent article by Sophie Bolt – Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament/CND – UK

The US reprisal of global nuclear proliferation, threatening a new arms race, could push the world to the brink of annihilation, warns SOPHIE BOLT of CND

… The US’s aggressive, first-strike nuclear posture, its expansion of its missile defence system and its use of bilateral military agreements are driving global nuclear rearmament and proliferation. Now renamed by Trump the “Golden Dome” in reference to Israel’s Iron Dome, US missile defence is a vast global network of bases expanded over decades into eastern Europe and the Asia-Pacific.

Far from being a defensive system as portrayed in the film House of Dynamite, US missile defence enables first-strike nuclear attacks to be carried out by the US without fear of retaliation. Russia has consistently warned of the destabilising effects of the system.

Trump and Nato have been pressuring member states across Europe to significantly increase military spending to fund a massive rearmament programme including expanding “by 400 per cent” missile defence systems. This is so that European Nato member states take on militarily confronting Russia as part of the Ukraine war, while the US administration refocuses its overwhelming military might on China — a continuation of Barack Obama’s “pivot to Asia” policy started in 2010. …

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/stop-trumps-nuclear-arms-race-no-global-war