Trump's new nuclear posture review reverses course on arms control by Robert Burns on Feb 6, 2018, 7:31 AM Advertisement
 WASHINGTON (AP) — There's a place for arms control in the Trump administration's new nuclear strategy, but it's a very small place. A 74-page summary of the strategy says new advances in arms control are "difficult to envision." It notes that such agreements can foster cooperation and confidence among nuclear weapons states and reduce the risk of miscalculation that could lead to war, but it also accuses Russia of undermining those aims by violating numerous treaties. The new U.S. posture focuses heavily on what the administration sees as an overdue modernization of the nuclear arsenal. But its diminution of arms control as a central part of the nuclear strategy may be just as striking. That probably will arise at a House hearing Tuesday featuring Defense Secretary Jim Mattis. SEE ALSO: US ballistic missile defense just doesn't work — but we keep spending billions and billions on it
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