The day that the Obama administration unveiled the so-called New START nuclear arms control treaty with Russia to cut the nuclear stockpiles of the two largest nuclear-armed countries by 30 percent, Joe Cirincione, a longtime nonproliferation wonk, offered some friendly advice to the negotiating teams. “Enjoy the victory of the More…
Tomorrow is (probably) going to be Nuke Day in Washington, as the Obama administration releases its long-awaited Nuclear Posture Review. That’ll tee up Thursday’s big nuke event: the Prague signing by presidents Obama and Medvedev of the U.S.-Russia New START accord on nuclear arms reductions and limitations. If you’re More…
If Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Friday statement that nuclear arms-reduction treaties typically command large bipartisan majorities was a first nudge to get the Senate to ratify the New START accord with Russia, late next week will showcase a second and more direct push. Clinton’s aides are planning More…
So we knew earlier today that the U.S.-Russia New START nuclear reductions treaty caps deployed warheads at 1,550, a 30 percent reduction from the Bush-Putin “Moscow Treaty” of 2002, and sets a limit of 700 deployed intercontinental and submarine-launched ballistic missiles and heavy bombers. What we didn’t know from More…
So, between health care reform and the New START nuclear reduction treaty with Russia, this is kind of a big week for President Obama. And you know who agrees? Russian President Dmitri Medvedev.
Apparently, when Obama and Medvedev put the finishing touches on the long-negotiated accord over the phone this More…
My fascination with NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen is well-documented and not likely to stop anytime soon. As President Obama and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev finalize the most comprehensive mutual nuclear-weapons reduction treaty in 20 years — much more on that later today — Rasmussen tweets a few More…
The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty between the U.S. and Russia expires on Saturday. U.S. and Russian negotiators have been working on a successor treaty to drastically reduce their nuclear arsenals, but they haven’t reached a final deal. So instead, according to a just-released joint statement from Presidents Obama and More…
Apparently Russian President Dmitri Medvedev doesn’t want to wait until his foreign minister meets Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday to discuss President Obama’s sort-of-quid-pro-quo trading eastern-European missile defense for an end to Russian cooperation on Iranian missile development. According to The New York Times, Medvedev gave More…
According to a great story from The New York Times’ Peter Baker, last month Obama administration envoys went to Moscow — apparently as part of this trip — and secretly approached President Dmitri Medvedev with something approaching a quid pro quo: the United States will stop with a More…
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