{"id":822,"date":"2021-04-27T10:04:36","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T10:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biden-power-map.test\/?post_type=topic&p=822"},"modified":"2021-08-17T20:15:34","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T20:15:34","slug":"nuclear-proliferation","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/biden-agenda.foreignpolicy.com\/topic\/nuclear-proliferation\/","title":{"rendered":"Arms Control & Nuclear Proliferation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

President Biden faces emerging nuclear powers in Iran and North Korea, a backdrop of increasing Great Power competition with Russia and China, and a difficult landscape for multilaterally renegotiating global arms control agreements with existing allies. President Trump\u2019s central approach to arms control focused on negotiating new agreements under his administration\u2019s terms, as opposed to honoring existing agreements, and updating the U.S. nuclear arsenal to maintain parity vis-\u00e0-vis Russia through a $1.7 trillion plan. Trump had attempted to renegotiate arms control deals with Russia, China, and North Korea, but he left office with little concrete progress made on any new agreements. Since Trump\u2019s withdrawal<\/a> from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA\u2014more commonly referred to as the \u201cIran nuclear deal\u201d), Iran has taken significant steps toward nuclear development and away from transparency, and North Korea has not taken any concrete steps<\/a> toward denuclearization, despite extensive U.S. sanctions and three face-to-face meetings<\/a> between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. The Biden administration has signaled an eagerness to return to U.S. commitments on numerous arms control agreements, pledging to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal and confirming the extension<\/a> of the new Strategic Arms Reductions Treaty (START) with Russia. Biden has nominated two of the Iran nuclear deal\u2019s primary negotiators\u2014Robert Malley<\/a><\/strong> and Wendy Sherman<\/a><\/strong>\u2014to high-level roles in the Department of State and another, Jake Sullivan<\/a><\/strong>, as his national security advisor. A return to the Iran nuclear deal still faces major obstacles<\/a>. To date, negotiations with Iran are stalled, and North Korea has been completely unwilling to engage<\/a> with the Biden administration on denuclearization talks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Among the Nine Nuclear Powers, Russia and the U.S. Hold the Majority of the World’s Nuclear Weapons<\/h6>\n\n\n\n

The United States and Russia hold over 90 percent of the world\u2019s nuclear warheads. After a rapid period of denuclearization in the 1990s, both the U.S. and Russia have been increasing their stockpiles of operational nuclear weapons since 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

U.S. and Russia’s Nuclear Arsenals, as of March 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n