US Nukes: Decades of Policy, or Just Monday?
While The Independent laments hypothetical nuclear tests, it sidesteps the uncomfortable fact that the US, under various administrations, has consistently deployed and financed the world's largest nuclear arsenal. (Imagine that!) The US pulled out of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in 2002 under Bush, then poured trillions into 'modernizing' its nuclear triad. It also continues to be the only
nation to have used nuclear weapons in warfare. So, a president musing about testing 'upends policy,' but actively building more powerful, more 'usable' nukes is just... Tuesday? One might wonder if the media's concern is about the policy itself, or just who is speaking the quiet parts out loud.