I’ve been made aware of them, recently althou im not sure if I feel they were made in good Faith. I am not now nor have I ever been a proponent of nuclear disarmament. The Genies is out of the bottle, we need to learn to deal with that. To that end I’m not yet sure if I’m incline to back up such assurances.
The only thing i’m certain of is that they were in fact just ‘promises’ made by an otherwise faithless Washington, so i really don’t think their worth the paper their written on anyway. Only a treaty ratified by Congress is binding.
If other countries come to view such promises as worthless, and the US a weak, worthless ally, which is indeed happening, then there WILL be at least a medium scale nuclear war in the not too distant future. I give it 10 - 50 years, and better than even odds that the US will not be directly attacked. But... the radiation will kill millions of US citizens and the world economy will collapse. The movements toward that war are already underway (but not unstoppable with strong leadership by the US.)
You hear people say the US should not be the world’s “cop”. They never discuss or understand where that leads.