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Published: 04/9/10

Obama Predicts Senate OK of Arms Deal, Dismisses Palin Barbs

By  Tom Diemer - Politics Daily
Obama Predicts Senate OK of Arms Deal, Dismisses Palin Barbs

President Obama said Friday he expects the Senate will overcome early Republican objections and ratify a new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty that sharply reduces deployed nuclear weapons in the United States and Russia. In an interview in Prague with ABC News, the president dismissed criticism of the agreement from former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, who compared it to a kid on a playground asking to be punched. "Last I checked," the president told ABC's George Stephanopoulos, "Sarah Palin's not much of an expert on nuclear issues. . . . If the secretary of defense and ...

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Published: 07/8/09

Tactical Nuclear Weapons, the Menace No One Is Talking About

By  David Wood - Politics Daily
Tactical Nuclear Weapons, the Menace No One Is Talking About

All hail the U.S. and Russian negotiators who begin work this week on a new strategic nuclear weapons reduction treaty, a worthy goal. But Presidents Obama and Medvedev, who agreed on the outlines of the treaty at their Moscow summit, seem to have overlooked thousands of nasty nuclear weapons bristling right under their noses in Europe: Russian and American tactical nukes. ...

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