The Tough Nuclear Deadline Looming over the Presidential Election
Briefly

Whoever wins the 2024 presidential election will face heightened nuclear geopolitics, deadlines on nuclear deals with Russia and Iran, and decisions on a $2-trillion weapons-modernization effort.
The missing story is why there isn't more argument about nuclear weapons at a time when the commander in chief might be unstable and in a world where Russia has repeatedly made nuclear threats.
We do have some data to base our projections on in the past behavior of both the Trump and the Biden administrations concerning U.S. nuclear policy.
Whoever wins the election, the next president faces hard choices and hard treaty deadlines on U.S. nuclear arms, which comprise roughly 5,000 weapons, with 1,700 deployed for military use.
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