President Trump has recently taken an unexpected stance on defense spending and denuclearizing warfare. Trump stated he hopes to work with China and Russia to lower defense spending and terminate the pursuit of nuclear weapon innovations on a global scale. Javed Ali, professor at the Ford School told Newsweek: "In order to achieve such an outcome, it would likely take a grand bargain involving all three countries unlike any which has existed before, and a stringent verification and monitoring regime in place to ensure none of the parties would clandestinely pursue nuclear weapons research or weapons development that would violate the terms of any such agreement. The complexity, scope, and implications of such an initiative for global security would be unmatched by anything else in recent memory."
