Biden saddled with Trump’s trifecta of nuclear agreement withdrawals

The last 4 years has been a disaster for war saving nuclear agreements between the U.S. and Russia. Trump blew up two and derailed negotiations to extend the third and last between the world’s two nuclear giants.

In October, 2018, Trump withdrew from the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) which banned the two nations’ land based short and intermediate range nuclear ballistic missiles. Fear of Chinese exploitation of U.S. -Russian denuclearization was a major reason.

Last May Trump withdrew from the Open Skies Treaty which allowed unrestricted flights by both countries to monitor their nuclear activities. Reason? Trump simply doesn’t believe sane nuclear agreements supports Trump’s ultra nationalism.

On the way out the White House door, Trump has sabotaged efforts to renew New START, the last major U.S. –Russian nuke treaty, signed Feb. 5, 2010. This ten year agreement expires in 18 days. It’s designed to further reduce strategic offences arms between two nations that still have 1,500 nukes pointed at each other.

Three strikes at nuclear deterrence and Trump grabs some bench. Next up is clean up hitter Joe Biden. Swing for the fences on nuclear disarmament, Joe. The Doomsday Clock is approaching three outs in the ninth.