US Nukes Return to Testing, Decades-Long Treaty be Damned
The BBC story positions Trump's call for renewed nuclear weapons testing, 'for the first time in over 30 years' (as per the source ), as a response to perceived threats from China and Russia. Missing from this narrative, of course, is the U.S.'s own historical role in initiating and escalating nuclear arms races. The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) was signed by the US in 1996, a
globally recognized effort to end nuclear explosions. This move isn't 'keeping pace'; it's actively tearing down international agreements that have, however imperfectly, kept the nuclear genie in the bottle for a generation. One might wonder if the military-industrial complex's quarterly earnings reports influenced this sudden need for bigger bangs more than any actual strategic imperative. It
appears some only trust 'stable deterrence' when they're allowed to break all the stability measures themselves. After all, what's a little irradiated Nevada dust when there's an opportunity to spike defense contracts?