No Arms Treaty Will Mean More Spy Satellites

Intel: No Arms Treaty Means U.S. May Divert Satellites To Cover Russia -- Washington Times

Senate under pressure to ratify New START.

In the absence of a U.S.-Russian arms control treaty, the U.S. intelligence community is telling Congress it will need to focus more spy satellites over Russia that could be used to peer on other sites, such as Iraq and Afghanistan, to support the military.

The demand for these satellites - one component of the "national technical means," or NTM - has increased the urgency for the Obama administration to get the Senate to ratify the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) in its lame-duck session.

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My Comment: My suggestion .... start building more spy satellites.