The anti-nuclear progressives are moving en masse into the Biden Administration to initiate a new era in nuclear-arms control. At least, that’s the upshot of a report in Politico posted on Jan. 27. “Taking up posts at the Pentagon, State Department and National Security Council are a cadre of experts who collectively have their sights on a renaissance in nuclear restraint,” Politico reports. The team of arms control experts that Biden is enlisting “represents the vanguard of a decades-long progressive push to pull back from the nuclear brink and seek the elimination of atomic weapons.”
“The stars are aligned,” said Joe Cirincione, a veteran nonproliferation advocate who mentored a number of Biden’s picks. “Extending New START for five years is just the opening gambit. This is going to be quite a show.”
