Samuel Charap
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first heard Mar 2026
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Every, you know, movement of launchers in and out of service essentially was notified there were opportunities for inspection and so on.
So.
I think the way the Trump administration has approached Russia and the negotiations since it's taken office has basically been, we can talk about a lot of things after a ceasefire, but we need to see the war in Ukraine ended.
And that they're very focused on that as a first order priority.
Now, the question of what happens after that is more complicated.
You've heard voices from the administration, including President Trump himself, talk about the need for a trilateral agreement, one that involves China.
And in fact, that was the Trump administration position toward the end of the first term.
Now, my personal view is that there is grounds for having U.S.-Russia arms control, despite the buildup of the Chinese arsenal, which has become much more of a, you know, their buildup is much more significant in the last few years.
And they're projected by 2035 to have, you know, as many warheads as the U.S.
has warheads deployed under New START, at least.
So although the U.S.
will still have something like three times as many warheads overall,
That's a huge buildup of five times larger than it was in 2019.
But the deterrence relationships between China and the US and Russia and the US are fundamentally different.
And therefore, in my view, you would want two separate arrangements.
Moreover, at the moment, China's arsenal remains a fraction of the size of the US and Russia.
We still control over 85% of the world's nuclear weapons and thus, I think, have a special responsibility to minimize the chances of
their use and to at least have limitations, if not further reductions.
I mean, I think there's a debate in the U.S.
now about how many we need in light of the Chinese buildup.
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