In a recent interview, former US President Donald Trump revealed that during his time in the White House, the United States came close to brokering a denuclearization agreement with both Russia and China. Trump’s bold claim was made during a two-hour discussion with comedian Andrew Schulz, which was posted on X (formerly known as Twitter) on October 9. According to Trump, the deal would have initiated a groundbreaking step toward global denuclearization, later expanding to include other nuclear-armed nations.

“We were close to a deal for getting rid of nuclear weapons. It would be so good,” Trump remarked, underscoring the potential magnitude of the agreement. “I’m talking about Russia, ourselves, and China. We would then bring everyone else into it.”

Trump’s remarks paint a picture of a highly ambitious effort to reduce and eventually eliminate nuclear weapons worldwide, focusing initially on the three most heavily armed nuclear states-Russia, China, and the US. Although details on how such an agreement would have been structured remain vague, Trump’s description suggests that this deal could have transformed the global nuclear landscape. The idea of expanding such an agreement beyond the three powers is particularly significant, as it could involve nuclear-armed countries like India, Pakistan, and Israel, as well as rogue states like North Korea.

For Trump, nuclear weapons remain the “biggest threat” the world faces today, even surpassing concerns about climate change, which he dismissed during the interview. “It’s not global warming, where the oceans are rising 1/8 of an inch in the next 500 years,” Trump said, downplaying environmental concerns in........

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