Posts Tagged ‘START Treaty’
Obama reveals Britain’s nuclear missile secrets to Russians as bribe to get START Treaty
Weren’t Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executed for doing something like this?
U.K. TELEGRAPH: Information about every Trident missile the US supplies to Britain will be given
to Russia as part of an arms control deal signed by President Barack Obama next week.
Defence analysts claim the agreement risks undermining Britain’s policy of refusing to confirm the exact size of its nuclear arsenal.
The fact that the Americans used British nuclear secrets as a bargaining chip also sheds new light on the so-called “special relationship”, which is shown often to be a one-sided affair by US diplomatic communications obtained by the WikiLeaks website.
Details of the behind-the-scenes talks are contained in more than 1,400 US embassy cables published to date by the Telegraph, including almost 800 sent from the London Embassy, which are published online today.
Russia emphasizes its right to withdraw from START Treaty if it feels threatened by West
REUTERS: Russia’s parliament moved closer to approving a landmark arms reduction treaty with Washington Friday by amending domestic legislation to stress that Moscow could withdraw from the pact if it felt threatened by the West.
The amendments required for Russia to ratify the New START treaty do not change the pact itself and were introduced before the second of three ratification votes in the State Duma, the lower house of parliament.
The U.S. Senate included its own interpretations of the treaty — the centrepiece of a “reset” that has improved long-strained relations between Moscow and Washington — when it voted to ratify it last month.
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Analysts: “Nuclear treaty goes easy on Russians”
AFP: The new Russia-US nuclear arms pact may have been hailed as historic but analysts said that all Moscow really has to do is phase out Soviet-era missiles and warheads that are already out of date.
The new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) was ratified by the US Senate on Wednesday after a passionate months-long debate and given initial approval by Russia’s State Duma lower house of parliament two days later.
It will face two more hearings in Russia and almost certainly come into force within the next few months.
