Yesterday, Seymour Hersh posted an interview he give to Mark Medish, described by Hersh as a Washington attorney and arms control and disarmament expert who spent years working at high levels in the Treasury, the State Department, and the White House. In an Aug. 15 article in the Washington Spectator, “Medish argued that a renewed major power interest in nuclear freeze talks is urgently needed because ‘the complexity of this subject has increased due to major technological advances in the nuclear, space, rocketry, biological and cyber/AI/quantum areas.’”
One of Medish’s main points is that there must be dialogue between the U.S. and Russia. “Those who say that the tragic Ukraine War must prevent us from strategic dialogue with Russia are missing the lessons of our own history,” he told Hersh. “Nuclear talks and arms control treaties are not a sign of approval, but a recognition of shared interests. Nixon rightly met with Brezhnev and Mao not because they were our friends but because it was in the U.S. national interest to do so.”
