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START treaty ratification US priority
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U.S. administration prioritizes new START treaty ratification
The ratification of a new strategic arms reduction (START) treaty with Russia is a top priority of the Barack Obama's administration.
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START: Russia-U.S. nuclear talks
No evidence of Russian cheating on START I- State Department 17:33 30/07/2010 The United States does not believe Russia cheated on its obligations under the 1991 strategic arms reduction treaty, a State Department official said. Russia to test-launch ...
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Peace in Our Time: All Trust, No Verify
With the Senate Foreign Relations Committee scheduled to vote on the New START treaty on August 3, pundits left and right are using the State Departments most recent report on arms-treaty compliance to make their respective points about the new ...
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Playing Politics With National Security
William Hartung, Director of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation, has come up with what he seems to think is a clincher argument for why the Senate should approve the New START treaty: Conservatives are against it. A ...
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DeMint: New START Codifies the Balance of Terror
The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) between the U.S. and Russia is a throwback to the Cold War and does not address the greatest threats the U.S. faces today, namely ballistic missile attacks by rogue nations, according to Sen. Jim ...
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New START: Too modest to merit partisan bickering
It's hard to believe that ratification of the New START treaty is turning into a pitched battle between some Republicans and the White House. It's even harder to believe that advocates for and against the treaty are trying to turn it into a stand-in ...
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We can't delay a new START with Russia
The July 26 editorial "The START debate" was on the mark in calling for Senate approval of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty by year's end. But it failed to note that delay or rejection of this common-sense agreement would undermine U.S. security ...
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Neocon Endorses START Treaty
Robert Kagan , the sanest of the neocons, argues that conservative attacks on the STARTtreaty are unpersuasive:The proposed cuts in nuclear arsenals are modest. The START I agreement cut deployed strategic nuclear weapons on both sides roughly 50 ...
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Phantom MEPs face wait for seats
Future MEPs could be hit by Parliament cost-cutting.
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The President's False START
National Security: Think Moscow will violate the New START arms limitation treaty? A just-issued report says it never obeyed the first one. The motto of the Obama administration is blindly trust, don't verify and unilaterally disarm. You can forget ...
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Red Cross hails cluster munitions ban
The Red Cross has hailed a landmark treaty banning cluster munitions which comes into force over the weekend.
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Nuclear Commanders Endorse New START
The men behind a decade and a half of U.S. strategic nuclear planning say the New START treaty will enhance American national security. . By Hans M. Kristensen Seven former commanders of U.S. nuclear strategic planning have endorsed the New START ...
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Will Romney's START Gamble Pay Off?
A few weeks ago, Mitt Romney drew a circle in the sand and stood inside of it, declaring his opposition to the START treaty on the grounds that it jeopardized national security and conceded too much to Russia. The op-ed was torn to shreds the next day ...
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Smart New START
Kim R. Holmes of the Heritage Foundation claims that although he opposes the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) with Russia, he does not "oppose all arms control pacts" ("A better way to arms control," Nation, Thursday). Yet the only arms ...
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Yeah, START is gonna be ratified
Peter Baker provides some lay of the land on START in his New York Times write-up: With time running out for major votes before the November election, the White House is trying to reach an understanding with Senate Republicans to approve its ...
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US official says nuclear treaty disputes lingered
U.S. complaints about Russian compliance with the 1991 START nuclear arms control treaty had not been resolved when the pact expired last year, but the disputes never amounted to allegations of cheating, a senior administration official said Wednesday.
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Landmines still kill in Europe: Time for an absolute ban
nbsp;nbsp; There have been more than 3 000 casualties caused by landmines in Europe in the last ten years. Anti-personnel landmines continue to kill or maim indiscriminately long after wars have finished. They are therefore banned under international ...
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Republicans Continue Assault on New START Treaty
Republicans led by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., hammered at the New START Treaty when the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee held its fourth hearing on the arms reduction pact with Russia on July 20.
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Report finds Russians may not be in compliance, could sink new START pact
The United States believes Russia is not fully complying with international pacts involving chemical and biological weapons, although Moscow has settled most questions about violations of a nuclear arms treaty with the United States, according to a ...
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Morning Bell: Lets Not Make a Deal
At the height of the debate over Obamacare, when the White Houses leftist allies were in full panic mode, The Washington Posts Ezra Klein accused Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) of being willing to cause the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.
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Appeals court rules on scope of migratory bird act
A federal appeals court decision over dead birds found in Kansas oil field equipment has defined the scope of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, affirming that violators do not need to intentionally kill them to be convicted.
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New START and Missile Defense
I have not written here on the New START treaty, in part because everything that can be said has been said, well, almost everythingsee below. The treaty is in no way revolutionary. I dont think Reagan would bat an eyelash at it. Yet, while ...
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Tea Party activists come out against START
A lobbying group affiliated with the Tea Party hasjoined the effort to derail President Obama's new arms-control agreement withRussia, launching a grassroots campaign by spreading misleading informationabout the pact to the general public.Former ...
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GAFFNEY: Quality control or rubber stamp?
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is expected soon to vote on President Obama's New START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty). As usual, its majority is lining up to perform the role of rubber stamp on whatever treaty an executive signs and wants ...
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U.S.-Russia nuke treaty stirs heated debate (3)
Lawrence J. Korb, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, wrote that opponents are making misleading arguments, citing the contention that the treaty would impede the U.S. ability to build missile defenses. The language dealing with ...
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Eight Problems with the New START -- By: Mitt Romney
M y criticism of the New START treaty generated both praise and disparagement. Sen. Richard Lugars thoughtful critique of my position deserves further discussion. 1. New START does limit U.S. missile-defense options. First, New STARTs preamble not ..
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U.N. Arms Trade Treaty: "Programme of Action" on Small Arms Shows Its Dangers
The U.S. should resist all efforts to turn the U.N.s Programme of Action on small arms into a treaty.
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The START debate
THE NEW NUCLEAR weapons treaty with Russia under consideration by the Senate is a modest achievement for arms control. New START, as the latest Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty is called, sets a limit of 1,550 deployed warheads, reflecting a 30 percent ...
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Ill-wind blows for a 'neutral' Afghanistan
Little to substantiate the professed commitment to a "neutral" Afghanistan appeared in the mists of this week's international conference in Kabul. Instead, the prospect emerged that the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization are ...
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