One: I think there is ample blame to go around. I am far from an expert on nuclear policy, but I think the going consensus is: All parties have a very mixed record over the past half-century, but things were at least trending slowly in the right direction. (NK and Iran excepted.) Yes, the U.S. withdrew from the ABM Treaty, but it kept up…
One: I think there is ample blame to go around. I am far from an expert on nuclear policy, but I think the going consensus is: All parties have a very mixed record over the past half-century, but things were at least trending slowly in the right direction. (NK and Iran excepted.) Yes, the U.S. withdrew from the ABM Treaty, but it kept up New START and the other agreements. Russia has now fully blown up all bilateral/international collaboration on this.
Two: I agree with the skepticism. But I do appreciate that the narrative is used in service of a clear point — that world powers need to talk to each other, and that it is normal people who make up our systems, and they are both fallible and capable of humanity in a way that superstructures are not. I certainly prefer that message than the normal ethos of spy fiction: That we need extraordinary men to save us from far-reaching and unseen evil.
One: I think there is ample blame to go around. I am far from an expert on nuclear policy, but I think the going consensus is: All parties have a very mixed record over the past half-century, but things were at least trending slowly in the right direction. (NK and Iran excepted.) Yes, the U.S. withdrew from the ABM Treaty, but it kept up New START and the other agreements. Russia has now fully blown up all bilateral/international collaboration on this.
Two: I agree with the skepticism. But I do appreciate that the narrative is used in service of a clear point — that world powers need to talk to each other, and that it is normal people who make up our systems, and they are both fallible and capable of humanity in a way that superstructures are not. I certainly prefer that message than the normal ethos of spy fiction: That we need extraordinary men to save us from far-reaching and unseen evil.