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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: thundley4 on March 25, 2010, 05:28:37 AM
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The United States and Russia have reached a deal on their most extensive nuclear arms-control agreement in nearly two decades, the Kremlin announced Wednesday. The pact appeared to represent President Obama's first victory in his ambitious agenda to move toward a nuclear-free world.
The new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) would replace a 1991 pact that expired in December. Experts called the new agreement the most significant arms-control accord since the 1993 signing of START II, which the Russians never ratified.
Officials in both countries would not discuss details of the new accord, but the general outlines have emerged during the year-long negotiations. Each side will reduce its most dangerous nuclear weapons -- those deployed for long-range missions-- from a ceiling of 2,200 to between 1,500 and 1,675. And the two militaries will make relatively small cuts in the number of jets and land- or submarine-based missiles that carry nuclear warheads and bombs.
A Kremlin spokesman told reporters that the two countries' presidents would talk soon to decide when to sign the pact. "All documents related to the new treaty have been agreed upon," he said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of diplomatic sensitivity.
The declaration appeared to surprise the White House, with spokesman Robert Gibbs saying that the two sides were "close" to a treaty but that it would not be announced until Obama could speak with President Dmitry Medvedev, probably in the next few days. WaPo (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/24/AR2010032401535.html?hpid=topnews)
Any guess as to who got the short end of the stick in these negotiations? :whatever:
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Ok, everyone ready?...
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WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?
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Ok, everyone ready?...
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WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?
Absolutely nothing...from the Russian point of view.
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So under the new deal the US disarms and Russia does not?
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So under the new deal the US disarms and Russia does not?
And what we don't destroy, we give to Iran.
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It is just another ass kiss on his long list of those he wants to kiss before he leaves the White House in a few years
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For such a supposedly-important agreement, the change honestly sounds pretty trivial. We'll still have enough long-range weapons to put them back into the Stone Age by about a factor of five, and the same for them (Like they'll actually comply honestly anyway).
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For such a supposedly-important agreement, the change honestly sounds pretty trivial. We'll still have enough long-range weapons to put them back into the Stone Age by about a factor of five, and the same for them (Like they'll actually comply honestly anyway).
There be a good list of them here (http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Weapons/Allbombs.html):
Personally, I favor the Mk-41 and other multi-Megaton weapons.
The latest and greatest are the "W80" series of which the W88 (http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Weapons/W88.html), being the MOST sophisticated and miniaturized nuclear warhead/weapon in the world. The very same who's designs that Bill Clinton allowed Wen Ho Lee to steal from Los Alamos then send to China for campaign cash.
Of course after all of the potentially bad hoopla press against the blow-job President, all of Lee's crimes dematerialized.