Dear President Trump,
In order to make sure that each side actually depletes their nuclear warheads, I suggest a program that would require both sides being more clear about the nuclear weapons they have. There should be a plan like some businesses have, with random inspections, thus making the consequences for not bringing down the numbers much stricter than in the past. Understandably, neither side would trust someone from the other country coming to do the random inspections, but having someone that the UN or NATO assigned to this new program would mean that there would not necessarily be a bias towards one country or another, and the truth would be reported.
I would tend to disagree that this approach would not entirely work with Russia. I think that Russia would never agree to a treaty that would deliberately limit their discretion on managing their nuclear weapons.
ReplyDeleteI have to agree with Chandler. Although good in theory, if this were to actually be practiced, I feel as though there would be some high tensions. FOr example, if Russia depletes their weapons but the US does not, RUssia would have more of drive to create nuclear weapons again and abandon the treaty. Similarly, even getting both parties to negotiate or sign this treaty would take a lot of negotiations and time to reach a common understanding.
ReplyDeleteHow would you confirm that each side was being truthful in how many nuclear weapons they had? I definitely agree with Bobby and Chandler that it would be nearly impossible to coerce Russia into depleting their nuclear arsenal, especially since the US would never deplete ours.
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