Opinion: Biden confronts the nuclear elephant in the room | CNN

Oct 08, 2022 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -98% Extremely Liberal

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  • Policy Leaning

    56% Very Conservative

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"After conservative Republicans did well in the 1978 midterms, with many candidates ruing on platforms that called for being tougher on communism, a new treaty became even more difficult, politically."
Positive
16% Conservative
"In 2002, while President George W. Bush and Putin signed a new nuclear arms treaty, the US later raised concerns that Russia was assisting Iran with what intelligence agencies deemed to be a nuclear weapons program."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"But when Donald Trump became president, he pulled out of the nuclear agreement with Iran in 2018 (subsequently, Iran has escalated its nuclear arms program)."
Negative
-38% Liberal
"In 2015, President Barack Obama signed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action in 2015 that aimed to contain Iran's nuclear program."
Positive
8% Conservative
"The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] were essential to Nixon's policy of detente - easing relations with the Soviets."
Positive
6% Conservative
"As the world now faces the real possibility of those weapons being deployed, let's remember Gorbachev's wise words -- a sentiment that was shared by Reagan - and make this world safer."
Positive
6% Conservative
"Although Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter continued to pursue more agreements, namely SALT II, those efforts stalled in the late 1970s."
Positive
4% Conservative
"In his diary, Reagan wrote, It's very effective & left me greatly depressed."
Positive
4% Conservative
"During his primary challenge to Ford in 1976, Reagan said detente was a one-way street."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"During his primary challenge to Ford in 1976, Reagan said detente was a one-way street."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"In the 1980s, then-President Reagan's bellicose rhetoric and a series of quick successions of Soviet leaders kept Americans on edge."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"Biden's comments referred to the Cuban missile crisis in October 1962, when the world seemed to teeter on the brink of nuclear war as the US and the Soviet Union faced off over missiles in Cuba."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"Although Reagan spent his first term railing against any negotiations with the Soviets, he later bucked conservative opposition to sign the historic Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Agreement (INF) in 1987."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"One year later, Trump did the same with the Open Skies Treaty, which had enabled participants to conduct surveillance flights to foster transparency and reduce the risk of war."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"While Biden's recent comments invoking Armageddon may not be based on new intelligence on Putin, they reflect the long-simmering unease over the Russian leader's nuclear threats and should serve as an impetus to bring back long-term nuclear arms control."
Negative
-34% Liberal
"In 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Agreement and four years later, President Richard Nixon struck a deal with the Soviet Union to limit the number of nuclear missiles in their arsenals."
Negative
-38% Liberal
"But when Donald Trump became president, he pulled out of the nuclear agreement with Iran in 2018 (subsequently, Iran has escalated its nuclear arms program)."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"CNN --Speaking at a fundraiser for Senate Democrats on Thursday, President Joe Biden warned that the risk of Armageddon - given Russian President Vladimir Putin's nuclear threats - has not been this high since 1962."
Negative
-42% Liberal
"Biden has already attempted to kick-start this issue by extending the New START nuclear treaty with Russia until 2026."
Negative
-42% Liberal
"The conservative movement in America, with Ronald Reagan at the helm, made detente and arms agreements a focus of his political attacks."
Negative
-44% Liberal
"Although Ford defeated Reagan, the attack had staying power, and Ford backed away from the policy of detente, shying away even saying the term in public."
Negative
-78% Liberal
"Although Ford defeated Reagan, the attack had staying power, and Ford backed away from the policy of detente, shying away even saying the term in public."
Negative
-78% Liberal
"Although Ford defeated Reagan, the attack had staying power, and Ford backed away from the policy of detente, shying away even saying the term in public."
Negative
-78% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : After conservative Republicans did well in the 1978 midterms, with many candidates running on platforms that called for being tougher on communism, a new treaty became even more difficult, politically.
39% : In 2002, while President George W. Bush and Putin signed a new nuclear arms treaty, the US later raised concerns that Russia was assisting Iran with what intelligence agencies deemed to be a nuclear weapons program.
31% : But when Donald Trump became president, he pulled out of the nuclear agreement with Iran in 2018 (subsequently, Iran has escalated its nuclear arms program).

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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