Obama White House Rips Senate Republicans For Their Treasonous Letter To Iran

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78. Here are the nuclear treaties between the Soviet Union (later, Russia) and the US...

It's interesting to note that they all have/had sunset provisions, afaict. Subsequent presidents did make changes of one kind and another.

But what springs out at me most clearly was that during the entire Cold War era, the US kept reaching out to the "evil Commies" to reduce the threat of worldwide nuclear annihilation. Some DUers are apparently too young to remember the urgency of those actions (I've gotten some really nasty comments about the "duck and cover generation" and the "whining of the Boomers&quot . All our presidents, even the ones I found despicable, worked at this issue.

I do not know enough about the laws regarding treason to know if the recent action of the 47 Republican Senators in writing to Iranian hardliners actually rises to that level, but from my perspective this is the lowest the US Congress has ever fallen in our entire history.

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Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty -- 1963 -- JFK and Krushchev

SALT I -- begun in 1969, produced by 1972 -- Nixon (In June 2002, the United States unilaterally withdrew from the ABM treaty -- Bush Junior)

SALT II -- 1979 -- Carter (1986 ditched by Reagan)

INF -- 1987 -- Reagan

START I -- 1991 -- Bush Sr and Gorbachev --proposed in early 1980s by Reagan, signed in 1991

Presidential Nuclear Initiative -- 1991 -- Bush Sr. and Gorbachev

START II -- 1993 -- Bush Sr. and Yeltsin (START II was effectively shelved as a result of the 2002 U.S. withdrawal from the ABM treaty)

SORT -- 2002 -- Bush Jr. and Putin

New START -- 2010 -- Obama and Putin


Source: https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/USRussiaNuclearAgreementsMarch2010