This is the Cater Daily Podcast for Friday, October 26, 2018.

I'm Caleb Brown.

The White House has announced intentions to withdraw from large agreements limiting

nuclear weapons.

What does that mean for American security and the substantial costs associated with such weapons?

Kato's Eric Gomez and Carolyn Dormany comment.

Before the Trump administration, how did administration look at arms reduction treaties? And how did the the I guess how did the public look at it?

Well previous administrations had been very interested in nuclear arms control

writ large the intermediate range in Nuclear Arms Control Red Large, the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, also known

as I.N.F, which is what we're going to be talking about today.

That was actually created by Reagan in 1987.

New Start, the latest in bilateral relations with Russia on nuclear arms control

was negotiated during the Obama administration.

Both Republicans and Democrats had been pretty heavily invested in nuclear

nonproliferation and arms control movements. Trump has really proliferation and

arms control movements.

Trump has really

pulled away from the norm on this one and has taken a much more hostile tone to a lot of these treaties and thrown a lot of things into

a question that weren't necessarily going to be questioned beforehand at all.

I think a lot of people in DC were interested in fixing the problems with these treaties

but definitely moving forward with them and maybe amending them to keep and making sure that they're

going to have relevance over the next decade at least.

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