#START

The world is in a race between cooperation and catastrophe. If a nuclear disaster occurs—what would we wish we had done to prevent it? Why don’t we do it now?

Several key Senate Republicans, McConnell, Graham and Kyl are leading the resistance to the ratification of the START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty), claiming that the Senate needs more time to review the fine print on the treaty that would specify limits of: – 1,550 deployed warheads, which are about 30% lower than the upper warhead […]

Senate ratification of the renewal of the START nuclear arms reduction treaty may be stalled by domestic politics. As you will recall, the old treaty expired in December and the U.S. and Russia worked to put together a new treaty that will continue their decades-long commitment to draw-down their nuclear arsenals. The heavy-lifting has already […]

Russia and the U.S. signed the new START Treaty today in Prague. It was the kind of international event that would have garnered major press coverage in times past, but no longer. If you were busy today, you may have missed the news. It has been some time since the world lived with the fear […]

I’d like to follow up on my recent post regarding the new arms control treaty announced last week. As you know, the treaty will have to be approved by the U.S. Senate and given the current environment in Washington, that may prove difficult. This report in The Washington Post notes that the Senate could begin […]

In the continuing effort to reset relations with Russia, the Obama Administration is near agreement on a major  arms control treaty to reduce long-range nuclear weapons. As this report from The Washington Post notes, the treaty is a follow-up to the expired 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) and will decrease nuclear armaments but not […]