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Significance
Amid bilateral tensions with Pyongyang over its nuclear programme, the Trump White House is considering withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal and advocating the reintroduction of low-yield nuclear weapons for battlefield use.
Impacts
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s arguments for the Iran nuclear deal are unlikely to bear fruit and may speed his rumoured exit.
US arsenal modernisation and doctrine shifts are likely to envenom New START renewal talks with Moscow ahead of the treaty's 2018 lapse.
Trump decertifying Iran’s JCPOA compliance may undercut the attractiveness of IAEA inspections in the eyes of other nuclear states.
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international relations,
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