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Project 2025 and Trump Are Cooking Up a Recipe for a New Nuclear Arms Race

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After decades of decommissioning world-ending nuclear weapons, America , Russia , and China are all building new ones.

The U.S. is set to spend almost $2 trillion on new nuclear weapons Project 2025 .

Author: Project 2025 wants to put Americaâs “nuclear enterprise on a wartime footing.â That means more nukes, different kinds of nukes.

Nuclear proliferation expert Sharon Squassoni says it would be a huge political mistake for the U.S. to resume testing for several reasons.

She says it comes from a knee-jerk feeling of not wanting to be restricted.

If we resume testing, so do the Russians and the Chinese , and the North Koreans .

The U.S. is already set to spend trillions of dollars modernizing its nuclear arsenal.

Project 2025 calls on the incoming administration to deal with this problem, but itâs light on details.

Even the detonation of one modern nuke could have vast and horrifying consequences for the environment.