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New Nuke Treaty in Sight
As soon as next week, and after months of negotiations, Russia and the U.S. may sign a successor to the most extensive nuclear-weapons treaty before it expires December 5. National Security Adviser Jim Jones’ trip to Moscow late last month is what has fueled the diplomatic optimism—Jones offered a package of proposals called the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or START, and the Russians reacted positively, if not formally. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Saturday that the two countries “have every chance” to sign a treaty by the year’s end. Nailing down a replacement for the expiring 1991 treaty is a key first step in President Obama’s arms-control agenda, and as the December deadline loomed, analysts had feared a lapse in the complex procedures that verify both sides conformed to the rules. The new START agreement will contain modest cuts in the number of deployed warheads each side is allowed. The new ceiling will be 1,500 to 1,675 city-annihilators for each nation, down from the 1,700 to 2,200 agreed to seven years ago.
Plantagenet
Given the way Obama and the dems have blatantly lied about the health care reform proposal------calling a joint session of congress and pre-empting all TV broadcasts to tell all the American people that Obamacare wouldn't include illegal aliens when it actually does-----it would be foolish to trust Obama the dems not to lie about US national defense as well.
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Meanwhile in the Middle East Nuclear Warheads are targeted who knows where ??
1973 Israel "threatened" to Nuke Cairo and Damascus.
2009 Israel "threatened" to Nuke Gaza.
http://newsblaze.com/story/20090909091715ianb.nb/topstory.html
http://www.carolmoore.net/nuclearwar/israelithreats.html
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Housebird
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Israel with 200 nuclear weapons in the words of Israeli Professor Martin Van Crevel has the capability of hitting most European capitals with nuclear weapons.
"We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at most European capitals.
"We have the capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that this will happen before Israel goes under"
"Most European capitals are targets of our air force."
http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/news/news.php?article=4258
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laughorcryagain
what a joke
US and Russia each have enough weapons to destroy the world a hundred times and if we reduce it to say 50 times we'll save billions, so obama will "negotiate" this treaty that both parties would do anyway and call it victory
obama is a lightweight going for every photo op instead of solving real problems.
Housebird
The good news is that the US spends $50 Billion every year on making "Nukes"
Friendly Uncle Sam always looking to reduce "Co-lateral" damage ??????
http://www.alternet.org/environment/136156/the_worst_giveaway_yet:_anoth er_$50_billion_for_rust-bucket_nukes_/
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BOKOBOT
This has been one of the most undercovered stories of the year. With America obsessed with a wonk issue like healthcare that only concerns Americans, Russia and Europe and the rest of the world have been talking about this and Afghanistan. Even if one realizes that these U.S./Russian agreements always coincide with a new level of technological mobility and lethality in the arsenals--so that reducing the number of warheads does very little in fact--this story would be a good opportunity to bring that up. But we are so busy chatting about healthcare reform, and Michael...
BOKOBOT
I would add that I support the treaty anyway. It's largely symbolic, but there are worse symbols. BOKO
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