[Peace-discuss] Slash nuclear weapons?

[E. Wayne Johnson]

Lead to what important development?  Attacking Iran when they don't get 
the message or take the bait?

Lipstick on a pig.  And interesting that the Obots are seeking a new 
diversion at this time.  ZbigNEW that is.




Brussel Morton K. wrote:
> This could lead to an important development…  --mkb
>
> February 04 2009
> *President Obama seeks Russia deal to slash nuclear weapons*
>
> The radical new treaty would reduce the number of nuclear warheads to 
> 1,000 each
>
> By Tim Reid
>
> President Obama will convene the most ambitious arms reduction talks 
> with Russia for a generation, aiming to slash each country’s stockpile 
> of nuclear weapons by 80 per cent.
>
> The radical treaty would cut the number of nuclear warheads to 1,000 
> each, The Times has learnt. Key to the initiative is a review of the 
> Bush Administration’s plan for a US missile defence shield in Eastern 
> Europe, a project fiercely opposed by Moscow.
>
> Mr Obama is to establish a non-proliferation office at the White House 
> to oversee the talks, expected to be headed by Gary Samore, a 
> non-proliferation negotiator in the Clinton Administration. The talks 
> will be driven by Hillary Clinton’s State Department.
>
> No final decision on the defence shield has been taken by Mr Obama. 
> Yet merely delaying the placement of US missiles in Poland and a radar 
> station in the Czech Republic — which if deployed would cost the US $4 
> billion annually — removes what has been a major impediment to Russian 
> co-operation on arms reduction.
>
> Any agreement would put pressure on Britain, which has 160 nuclear 
> warheads, and other nuclear powers to reduce their stockpiles.
>
> Mr Obama has pledged to put nuclear weapons reduction at the heart of 
> his presidency and his first move will be to reopen talks with Moscow 
> to replace the 1991 US-Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (Start), 
> which expires in December. Under that pact, the two countries have cut 
> their respective stockpiles from roughly 10,000 to 5,000.
>
> “We are going to re-engage Russia in a more traditional, legally 
> binding arms reduction process,” an official from the Administration 
> said. “We are prepared to engage in a broader dialogue with the 
> Russians over issues of concern to them. Nobody would be surprised if 
> the number reduced to the 1,000 mark for the post-Start treaty.”
>
> Efforts to revive the Start talks were fitful under Mr Bush and 
> complicated by his insistence on building a missile defence shield. 
> “If Obama proceeds down this route, this will be a major departure,” 
> one Republican said. “But there will be trouble in Congress.”
>
> The plan is also complicated by the nuclear ambitions of Iran, which 
> launched its first satellite into space yesterday, and North Korea, 
> which is preparing to test a long-range ballistic missile capable of 
> striking the US.
>
> Mr Obama views the reduction of arms by the US and Russia as critical 
> to efforts to persuade countries such as Iran not to develop the Bomb.
>
> Source: The Times of London 
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