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Trump Nonproliferation Official Teases Nuclear Policy Overhaul

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, March 21st, 2017

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Trump Nonproliferation Official Teases Nuclear Policy Overhaul

B-2 Spirit bomber prepares for refueling. Air Force photo.

The Trump administration is reconsidering every piece of U.S. nuclear arms policy – even the broad end goal of global nuclear disarmament – in its upcoming Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), a senior National Security Council official said Tuesday.“We’re being encouraged . . . to do a real honest-to-God, bottom-up review, to rethink things from the start, to look again at what policy alternatives might be available without being constrained by conventional wisdom or untested assumptions,” Christopher Ford, NSC senior director…

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