This passage was called 'Strangelovian' by a Federation of American Scientists expert and the report even quoted a nuclear war theorist known as an inspiration for Stanley Kubrick's 1964 black comedy.
. While nuclear war has long been a theme in prominent works of fiction, real-life measures restricting the use of such weapons have come under threat in recent years, with the U.S. and Russia trading accusations of arms control treaty violations.
The Trump administration has also delayed negotiations to renew the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty , which both the U.S. and Russia's nuclear capabilities, as the president pushed for a new deal involving China. Beijing, which possessed significantly less nuclear assets than Moscow and Washington, has said it"will never" join such an arrangement as it felt the White House did not even respect current international deals like the 2015 Iran nuclear accord.
A graphic depicts global nuclear weapons arsenals as estimated by the Federation of American Scientists as of December 2017.The bout escalated once again late last month when Defense Intelligence Agency Director Robert Ashley claimed that"Russia probably is not adhering to its nuclear testing moratorium in a manner consistent with the 'zero-yield' standard'"—an apparent violation of the 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty .
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