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Trump plan makes an accidental nuclear exchange much more likely

March 04, 2018
Charlotte Observer

Use diplomacy, avoid another cold war

Welcome to a new cold war with Russia and probably with China.

The Trump administration is calling for new smaller-yield nuclear ballistic missiles and cruise missiles to be deployed on submarines, so they are more useable. This undermines 30 years of a carefully constructed nuclear regime, violates the 1970 Nonproliferation Treaty, and makes an accidental nuclear exchange much more likely.

Most important, the only reason for the existence of these machines of doom in the first place was for them never to be used!

We will reduce the risks far more by engaging in creative diplomacy with Russia and China.


BERT CRAIN, HICKORY

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