Russia and US hold first talks on treaty to reduce nuclear weapon stockpiles

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Source: the Guardian

Russia and the US today held their first negotiations on a new treaty to reduce their nuclear weapon stockpiles, in a further sign of improved relations in the post-Bush era between Moscow and Washington.

American and Russian negotiators held preliminary talks today in Rome on replacing the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (Start-1), signed in 1991, and which expires in December.

The US president Barack Obama and Russian president Dmitry Medvedev agreed last month to reduce their nuclear arsenals during a meeting at the G20 summit in London. But there are doubts as to whether any new deal can be concluded by the year's end.

In particular, Moscow wants a new treaty to see a reduction not only in nuclear warheads but also in delivery systems such as strategic bombers with cruise missiles, and nuclear missiles fired from land or sea. It also wants to ban nuclear missiles from space.


Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/24/russia-us-talks-treaty-nuclear-stockpiles

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1. There goes that damn socialist Obama. Conspiring with our enemies again!

:sarcasm:

Can't you just hear the RW freaks popping blood vessels over this again? They can't stand our President making peace in the world when all they know is fear and war.

Fuck Republicans.

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2. You're so right.

After all, Start-1 was obviously negotiated by a great dem president and signed by his successor.

Oh. Wait. 1991. What would make it a Reagan/Bush I affair.

Well, I guess the RW freaks you're talking about didn't really much like Reagan or Bush I, esp. in how they dealt with the USSR.