Nuclear security

Broke and Paranoid...How the US Risks Nuclear War

In a recent New York Times article headlined ‘Race for Latest Class of Nuclear Arms Threatens to Revive Cold War’, the top American news publication appeared to lay equal blame on Russia, China and the US for fueling militarism.

Here is an extended quote from the article: “American officials largely blame the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin, saying his intransigence has stymied efforts to build on a 2010 arms control treaty and further shrink the arsenals of the two largest nuclear powers. Some blame the Chinese, who are looking for a technological edge to keep the United States at bay. And some blame the United States itself for speeding ahead with a nuclear ‘modernization’ that, in the name of improving safety and reliability, risks throwing fuel on the fire.”

The apparent “balanced” perspective of the NY Times is a crafty concealment of the reality that, by far, the US is the party fueling a renewed arms race.