A Better Way to Confront Russia's Nuclear Menace

Posted October 29, 2018

External Article: The Hill

Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, a professor in the Georgia Tech Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, recently wrote a guest column in The Hill entitled "A Better Way to Confront Russia's Nuclear Menace."

Here's an excerpt: 

Ongoing Russian violations of the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty need to be effectively addressed because they defy a longstanding bilateral agreement and directly threaten our NATO allies. However, the Trump administration’s move to pull out of the treaty is misguided; instead, we should launch a major initiative to strengthen strategic stability between the United States and Russia. The additional notice by national security adviser John Bolton that the United States is “considering its position about New START” — the 2010 New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty — is another example of escalatory rhetoric and illogical action that will undermine, rather than enhance, nuclear security.

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