“Deep nuke cuts impossible unless other nuclear states join US and Russia”
Published: 14 November, 2009, 03:54
Edited: 20 November, 2009, 12:02
TAGS: Arms, Meeting, Military, Nuclear, Medvedev, Russia, Obama, Law, USA
Russia and the US are negotiating a new nuke reduction treaty. But it’s necessary that other nuclear states get involved in such talks, the Director of the Nuclear Information Project, Hans Kristensen, told RT.
The Russian and US Presidents are due to meet on Sunday in Singapore, where they're attending a summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, or APEC. Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama will discuss progress with the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), which is to replace the current Cold War-era document that expires on December 5.
Kristensen believes that the chances are “very good” that the two leaders will overcome the challenges they face in finalizing the treaty and meet the deadline.
The START treaty should be seen in two contexts, he said.
“One is to get down from the enormous levels of the nuclear weapons that characterized the relationship between the US and Russia during the Cold War,” he said. “That’s what we are still working on. This treaty is still very much a step in that direction.”
“It’s also about trying to change the future relationship between Russia and the US so that their relationship is not so much focused on the strategic balance between the two, and that type of really Cold War-way of looking at each other,” Kristensen said.
However, at some point in the future, he said, it “will be necessary to try to get other nuclear weapon states involved in negotiations.”
Otherwise, “the US and Russia will not be able to go to deep cuts” in their nuclear arsenal.
However, he noted, “Iran and North Korea and those types of powers are in a different category of national security issues that do not relate directly to these large numbers of nuclear forces.”
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Rikard Baric Facts can cause moral hurt to those who do wish to erasure inconvenient facts . One of the facts that hurt is that Russia has never used nuclear weapons even though it’s the nation most devastated in WWII whereas the United States used nuclear weapons against civilian population and it is now hell bent to weaponising and dominate space! Obama is the pretty face of an empire driven by militarism and the impulse to dominate and control the world. Well, Obama latest poll numbers suggests that American people do not share your utopia vision. for the last time, I am neither naïve nor innocent. on the contrary, you have failed to provide credible evidence to back up your first post that you thought of so highly that you have decided to post it as a poetic homage to Sartre!
OK Sarah, I am naive and innocent.