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Moreover, he concluded that using such weapons of unimaginable destructive power without sufficient military justification would severely undermine American credibility in future arms control efforts.

"The arms control thing is a red herring. There is no arms control to be had with North Korea. We've tried arms control," he said.

We should face the realities of the U.S. government’s role in fueling such ominous trends, in part by dismantling key arms control agreements.

Historian Lawrence S. Wittner, author of “Confronting the Bomb,” warned in July that “Trump was far less interested in arms control and disarmament than in entering ― and winning ― a new nuclear arms race.”

In July this year, China suspended its nuclear arms control talks with Washington, in retaliation for the US' continued arms sales to Taiwan.