March272010
New Start: America & Russia Agree to Sharp Cuts in Deployed Warheads »
“On Friday March 26th Obama announced that Russia’s president, Dmitri Medvedev, had agreed to a follow-on treaty to the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), which was signed in 1991 and expired last December. The new deal will cut both countries’ arsenals by about a third from the maximum that would have been allowed under a deal struck in 2002 between George Bush and Russia’s then-president, Vladimir Putin. The new deal will cut the countries’ arsenals to 1,550 deployed warheads each and 700 delivery systems….Mr Obama’s team hopes that weapons cuts will draw some of the sting of a charge of hypocrisy by the big powers in trying to deny nuclear weapons to others, and may therefore allow for a robust strenghtening of the NPT.”
Read more: The Guardian’s and The Washington Post’s commentary on the import of START
And: George Stephanopoulis’s interview with President Obama about START
Tags: /nuclear arms /peace
