Zukunft der Atomwaffen

[Schneemann]

Mal einen alten Strang wieder aus der Versenkung holen...

Egal ob es nun nur wieder heiße Luft ist oder doch noch etwas nachkommt oder es nur eine seltsame Charade vor dem Hintergrund der kolportierten Stärkung des US-Militärs ist, hat Trump anscheinend eine Idee hinsichtlich der Reduzierung von Atomwaffen bzw. der Reduzierung der Ausgaben (wobei diese schlagwortartige Halbierungsgeschichte konträr zur "Wiedergreatmachung" des US-Militärs stünde)...

Trump proposes nuclear deal with Russia and China to halve defense budgets

‘We’re all spending a lot of money that we could be spending on other things,’ the US president said

[13 Feb 2025 22.05 CET]

Donald Trump said that he wants to restart nuclear arms control talks with Russia and China and that eventually he hopes all three countries could agree to cut their massive defense budgets in half. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday, Trump lamented the hundreds of billions of dollars being invested in rebuilding the nation’s nuclear deterrent and said he hopes to gain commitments from the US adversaries to cut their own spending. “There’s no reason for us to be building brand-new nuclear weapons. We already have so many,” Trump said. “You could destroy the world 50 times over, 100 times over. And here we are building new nuclear weapons, and they’re building nuclear weapons.” [...]

“One of the first meetings I want to have is with President Xi of China, President Putin of Russia. And I want to say: ‘Let’s cut our military budget in half.’ And we can do that. And I think we’ll be able to.” Trump in his first term tried and failed to bring China into nuclear arms reduction talks when the US and Russia were negotiating an extension of a pact known as New Start. Russia suspended its participation in the treaty during the Biden administration, as the US and Russia continued on massive programs to extend the lifespans of or replace their cold war-era nuclear arsenals.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...ssia-china

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