Wednesday, June 16, 2010

No Secret Deals Done For START

No back-room deals with Russia on arms cuts, missile defense - Gottemoeller. © RIA Novosti

No Secret START Deals Made With Russia, U.S. Envoy Asserts -- Global Security Newswire

The Obama administration's top negotiator on a new nuclear arms control treaty with Russia yesterday told U.S. lawmakers that Washington had brokered no undisclosed agreements on missile defense deployments or other matters while negotiating the pact, RIA Novosti reported (see GSN, June 7).

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and U.S. President Barack Obama in April signed the replacement to the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. The "New START" pact would obligate the nations to cap their fielded strategic nuclear weapons to 1,550 warheads, down from the maximum of 2,200 allowed each country by 2012 under the 2002 Moscow Treaty. The deal would also limit U.S. and Russian deployed nuclear delivery vehicles to 700, with another 100 platforms allowed in reserve. The pact has been submitted for ratification by legislative bodies in Russia and the United States.

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My Comment: No secret deals .... it is strange that they had to make a public announcement to deny something that .... quite frankly .... I have heard zero comments on.

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