New ‘cold war’ grows ever warmer as the prospect of a nuclear arms race hots up
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Thursday, April 25, 2024
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Bush met on the cruise ship, Maxim Gorky, off the coast of Malta to declare the end of the cold war.
Key Points:
- Bush met on the cruise ship, Maxim Gorky, off the coast of Malta to declare the end of the cold war.
- With the cold war over, Gorbachev liberalised the Soviet Union, presiding over its dismantling, which formally occurred on December 26 1991.
- To their own people.” Reagan and Gorbachev agreed that a nuclear war couldn’t be won, so must never be fought.
- He has now explicitly threatened to resort to use of nuclear weapons three times since launching his invasion in 2022.
‘Nuclear neolateralism’
- A new Silk Road nexus has emerged across China, Russia, Iran, Israel and North Korea since the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.
- This web of relationships is shaped by regional dynamics, strategic interests and global power shifts that influence security and global weapons proliferation.
- But tensions remain along shared borders – and freshly leaked classified papers reveal Russia’s fear of Chinese nuclear attack.
- In February 2023, the leader of the People Power Party, Chung Jin-suk, argued that South Korea needs nuclear weapons.
- Saudi Arabia does not have nuclear weapons, but officials have said that they will acquire them if their regional rival, Iran, becomes nuclear.
A new arms race
- The UN has said that a quantitative arms race seems imminent.
- The latest US nuclear posture review revealed a plan worth US$1.5 trillion (£1.21 trillion) to modernise US nuclear capability and create a “nuclear sponge” of 450 nuclear silos to absorb a future Russian attack.
- Now the UK has announced it will increase its defence budget to 2.5% of GDP to put it on a “war footing”.
Becky Alexis-Martin receives funding from ICAN.