Thread by @didikins4life

This is the #DemPartyPlatform for 2020. This part is called: 🇺🇸 Mobilizing the World to Address Transnational Challenges: Nonproliferation
🇺🇸Only one party will work to prevent the spread of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons, and eventually secure their elimination. 1/13

#Democrats believe the United States has a moral responsibility and national security imperative to prevent the spread of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons, and eventually secure their elimination. 2/13 #DemPartyPlatform #Nonproliferation

Over the past four years, the former Trump Administration did precisely the opposite. 3/13 #DemPartyPlatform #Nonproliferation

The former Trump administration’s brash nuclear threats, ill-considered withdrawals from critical arms control treaties and nuclear agreements, and reckless embrace of a new arms race have made the United States, and the world, less safe. 4/13 #DemPartyPlatform #Nonproliferation

Thanks to former President Trump’s abdication of leadership, the nuclear dangers that Americans face are greater than they have been in decades.5/13
#DemPartyPlatform #NuclearThreats #Nonproliferation

#Democrats reject a return to an old era of grave nuclear dangers.6/13 #DemPartyPlatform #NuclearThreat #Nonproliferation

#Democrats believe that the sole purpose of our nuclear arsenal should be to deter—and, if necessary, retaliate against—a nuclear attack, and we will work to put that belief into practice, in consultation with our allies and military. 7/13 #DemPartyPlatform #nonproliferation

#Democrats will work to maintain a strong, credible deterrent while reducing our overreliance and excessive expenditure on nuclear weapons. 8/13 #DemPartyPlatform #Nonproliferation

The former Trump Administration’s proposal to build new nuclear weapons was unnecessary, wasteful, and indefensible.9/13 #DemPartyPlatform #Nonproliferation

#Democrats commit to strengthening the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, maintaining the moratorium on explosive nuclear weapons testing, 10/13 #DemPartyPlatform #nonproliferation

#Democrats commit to pushing for the ratification of the UN Arms Trade Treaty and Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, and extending New START. 11/13 #DemPartyPlatform #NuclearTreaties #Nonproliferation

Just as was the case during the height of the Cold War, it’s in our interest to work with Russia to verifiably limit and reduce our nuclear stockpiles. 12/13 #DemPartyPlatform #NuclearTreaties #Nonproliferation

#Democrats will build on this foundation to negotiate arms control agreements that reflect the emergence of new players like #China, capture new technologies, and move the world back from the nuclear precipice.13/13 #DemPartyPlatform #ArmsControl #Nonproliferation