SFB 1288

When asked what the greatest threats to humanity are today, many people would probably name climate change and pandemics, writes SFB 1288 postdoc Thomas Müller (subproject A01) in the latest post on the SFB 1288 blog.

During the Cold War, the answer would have usually been 'nuclear war'. To reduce this threat, arms control was needed. Little by little, a network of treaties emerged that slowed down the spread of nuclear weapons and led to a reduction in the arsenals of the USA and the Soviet Union. This is currently threatened by the fact that the Trump government has proposed to solve its alleged problems by a new trilateral nuclear arms control agreement between the United States, Russia and China.

In the blog post, Thomas Müller discusses the "comparison game", the strategic use of comparing, which characterizes the debate on the US proposal—including video evidence of Trump's passion for comparing.