Global security

Ex-US Envoy Says Trump Nuclear Weapons Comments Could Threaten Global Peace

President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to strengthen and expand the US nuclear arsenal could threaten the very foundation of deterrence with both Russia and China, former US Assistant Secretary of Defense for Internal Security Affairs Chas Freeman told Sputnik.

...However, Freeman warned that if Trump carried out his threat, he would only succeed in destroying the stable balance of power that maintained world peace, not strengthen it, but creating a more dangerous and unpredictable world system.

"That is what attempts to neutralize other parties' deterrents by building capabilities to overwhelm or to neutralize them aim to accomplish. And it is what President-elect Trump now seems to be proposing with all the alarming vagueness that is inherent in foreign policy by tweet," he said.