Here's a disturbing fact.

A former KGB thug and a former reality TV star control over 90% of the world's nuclear

weapons.

I never thought about it in those terms before.

A present KGB thug, sorry.

And maybe more disturbing still the reality TV star, our president, just said he plans

to rip up a big agreement that limits all those weapons.

John Bolton arrived in Moscow as the US announced plans to withdraw from a historic nuclear

treaty.

This meeting has provoked a very strong reaction in Russia.

The Deputy Foreign Minister said that Russia is intended to mobilize the international

community in order to preserve the INF Treaty.

I feel like I need a scotch.

Alex Bell is the senior policy director at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation.

Before that, she worked on arms control at the State Department.

She spends most of her waking hours thinking about arms agreements and she was still surprised

by this news.

And worried for the state of strategic stability in Europe and around the world.

The intermediate-range nuclear forces treaty was really the foundation for the modern arms

control regime that's pulled back just these excessive arsenals that the US and the former

Soviet Union built up and to abandon it on the sidelines of a political rally.

It was among the more alarming things I've seen him do.

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