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December 10, 2025.
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Nuclear Policy
News – December 10, 2025
United States
OPINION: A National Security Strategy
with no strategy for managing existential
risks
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - Alexandra
Bell
December 8, 2025
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The goal of strategic stability is a welcome
sign for those that wish to see the nations with
the two largest nuclear arsenals work together
to reduce nuclear tensions. A more welcome sign
in the NSS would be the immediate commencement
of a dialogue between Washington and Moscow on
what comes after New START.
OPINION: How Much Abuse Can America’s
Allies Take?
Foreign Affairs - Robert E. Kelly and Paul Poast
December 8, 2025
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American allies may still hope for U.S. support,
but they are also starting to hedge against the
possibility that the United States will be
absent when problems arise by building
alternative alliance structures, considering
obtaining nuclear weapons, and even brokering
separate peace deals with, rather than
confronting, regional opponents.
Europe/Russia
Russia says it awaits an answer from the
US on New START as nuclear treaty ticks down
Reuters
December 10, 2025
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Russia on Wednesday said it was still awaiting a
formal answer from Washington on President
Vladimir Putin's proposal to jointly stick to
the last remaining Russian-U.S. arms control
treaty, which expires in less than two months.
Putin Ally Issues Update on Deploying
Nuclear Weapons in NATO Warning
Newsweek
December 9, 2025
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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko shared
an update on Tuesday about his plans to deploy
nuclear weapons in coordination with Russia
throughout his country.
East Asia
Why South Korea is powerless to revive
Trump-Kim nuclear talks
South China Morning Post
December 10, 2025
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South Korea’s recent moves to lower tensions
with Pyongyang – from removing its propaganda
loudspeakers to downplaying the North’s human
rights record – may ease frictions on the
peninsula, but analysts say they are unlikely to
help restart stalled denuclearisation talks
between North Korea and the US.
Russian bombers join Chinese air patrol
near Japan as Tokyo-Beijing tie strains
Reuters
December 10, 2025
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Japan has scrambled jets to monitor Russian and
Chinese air forces conducting joint patrols
around the country. Two Russian Tu-95
nuclear-capable strategic bombers flew from the
Sea of Japan toward the East China Sea to
rendezvous with two Chinese H-6 bombers, and
performed a "long-distance joint flight" in the
Pacific, the ministry said.
Ex-Seoul diplomat cautions against
giving up N.K. denuclearization language
Yonhap News
December 9, 2025
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A former senior South Korean diplomat on Monday
stressed the need to keep denuclearization
language in policy toward North Korea, warning
that renouncing the recalcitrant regime's
denuclearization could set off a regional
"nuclear domino" and other consequences.
Trump security roadmap omits North Korea
reference, raising diplomacy hopes
Reuters
December 8, 2025
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U.S. President Donald Trump's new global
security roadmap has dropped any reference to
denuclearising North Korea as a goal, fuelling
speculation that Washington may be angling to
boost the chances of a diplomatic breakthrough
with Pyongyang in 2026.
Asia
Pacific
OPINION: Nuclear tests leave a scar in
the Pacific
Pacific Island Times - Editorial Board
December 8, 2025
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President Donald Trump’s recent call for the
resumption of nuclear tests struck a chord with
the Pacific island nations, which are still
reeling from the impact of nuclear tests
conducted between 1940s and 1970s. Those tests
left long-term contamination, health problems,
displacement of populations, and unresolved
disputes over compensation and accountability.
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