Trump Stops Start – Let The Nuclear Arms Race Begin

After seeing the result in Nagasaki and Hiroshima, as well as the ongoing nuclear bomb tests in the American deserts and the Pacific islands, we knew the consequences of an Atomic War. For a generation, Americans had acknowledged the possibility of Nuclear War, but took some comfort in the fact that the Soviet Union was thousands of miles away. Another generation would come and go after the Cuban Missile Crisis before President Ronald Reagan would propose a limit to these doomsday weapons, and then nearly a decade before his concept became a ratified treaty, the START Treaty.

Author: David Reavill

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