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by photochemsyn
949 days ago
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A fundamental reason behind the new expansion of the nuclear arms race is the spread of anti-ballistic technology (shooting down incoming warheads and missiles). The article doesn't mention it at all oddly enough but I think that's the primary driver behind things like hypersonic missile development, etc. https://carnegieendowment.org/2021/12/13/u.s.-exit-from-anti... > "Twenty years ago today, then-president George W. Bush announced that the United States would withdraw from the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty. This cornerstone of the Cold War arms control regime, signed in 1972, sought to cap the arms race by limiting homeland missile defenses, thus reducing pressures on the superpowers to build more nuclear weapons." |
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