Dylan Spaulding
@dkspaulding.bsky.social
Senior Scientist, Union of Concerned Scientists, Global Security Program. Views are my own.
Blog: blog.ucsusa.org/author/dylan-spaulding/
Blog: blog.ucsusa.org/author/dylan-spaulding/
Source:
Americans Across Party Lines Want the U.S. to Keep Nuclear Limits with Russia, New Poll Finds
As the last remaining U.S.-Russia nuclear limitations treaty expires on Feb. 5, an overwhelming majority of Americans (91 percent) say the United States should negotiate a new agreement with Russia to...
www.nti.org
January 21, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Source:
Also, related: Per ReThink and NTI, "87% of Americans—including the vast majority of Trump voters—think Trump should agree to Russia’s one-year proposal... and 91% want the admin to negotiate a new deal with Russia to either maintain current nuclear limits or further reduce both countries’ arsenals"
January 21, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Also, related: Per ReThink and NTI, "87% of Americans—including the vast majority of Trump voters—think Trump should agree to Russia’s one-year proposal... and 91% want the admin to negotiate a new deal with Russia to either maintain current nuclear limits or further reduce both countries’ arsenals"
Shameless plug for my colleague, Jen Knox's work, on how they would do that:
Nuclear Weapons Without Limits?
Once the New START treaty expires in February 2026, there will be no limits on the number of strategic nuclear weapons the US and Russia can deploy.
www.ucs.org
January 21, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Shameless plug for my colleague, Jen Knox's work, on how they would do that:
I don't think this admin recognizes or appreciates anything that was conceieved out of mutual benefit. Zero-sum thinking is simply incompatible with any sort of cooperation or multilateral agreement, hence the "we'll get a better deal" type of rhetoric. His "better deal" might arrive on an ICBM.
January 21, 2026 at 5:53 PM
I don't think this admin recognizes or appreciates anything that was conceieved out of mutual benefit. Zero-sum thinking is simply incompatible with any sort of cooperation or multilateral agreement, hence the "we'll get a better deal" type of rhetoric. His "better deal" might arrive on an ICBM.
Reposted by Dylan Spaulding
Todd Harrison of AEI: "We already have unfettered access to what we need for Golden Dome in Greenland”
Sidebar: Golden Dome will not work and should not be built. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
Sidebar: Golden Dome will not work and should not be built. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
Why Trump doesn’t need to own Greenland to build Golden Dome
Much of the president’s signature defense shield isn’t even supposed to be based on land.
www.politico.com
January 15, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Todd Harrison of AEI: "We already have unfettered access to what we need for Golden Dome in Greenland”
Sidebar: Golden Dome will not work and should not be built. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
Sidebar: Golden Dome will not work and should not be built. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
And the full text, requesting responses by January 9th, 2026:
www.warren.senate.gov
December 17, 2025 at 6:09 PM
And the full text, requesting responses by January 9th, 2026:
USA Today covered the letter here:
Warren, Garamendi call for pause, review of nuclear bomb-building plan
The two lawmakers questioned the necessity of the nuclear weapons agency's plutonium pit strategy in a letter exclusively shared with USA TODAY.
www.usatoday.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:09 PM
USA Today covered the letter here: