How Putin, Xi and Trump sparked a new nuclear arms race
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How Putin, Xi and Trump sparked a new nuclear arms race
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Nuclear weapons are back.
This week, Moscow announced that it would no longer abide by the once hugely significant Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. Last week, President Donald Trump announced that he had moved nuclear submarines towards Russia.
From growing stockpiles in China and North Korea, to growing cooperation between the UK and France, the direction of travel is clear.
As Japan marks the 80th anniversary of the devastating atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Venetia talks to Dr Sidharth Kaushal, a senior fellow in military sciences at the Royal United Services Institute in London.
What’s driving this new nuclear arms race? Which country will be the next to go nuclear? And is there an argument that it actually makes the world safer?
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