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Obama Lobbies Republican Senators to Back Arms Pact
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama tried to sway reluctant Republican senators on Monday to back a new arms control treaty with Russia as GOP aversion to giving a politically damaged president another victory intruded on his national security agenda. The White House and senior Democrats expressed confidence that they had the votes for the accord that was signed by Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in April. The two countries negotiated the New START pact to cap nuclear weapons and restart weapons inspections in the spirit of U.S. efforts to reset the relationship between the ...
Gates, Clinton Say New Nuclear Arms Curbs Pose No Risk to Security
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailySecretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defense Secretary Robert Gates sought Sunday to allay fears that U.S. security would be at risk following a new agreement with Russia to cut nuclear arsenals and, in particular, President Obama's decision to narrow the instances in which the U.S. would use its nuclear weapons. "We will always protect the United States, our partners and allies around the world," Clinton said on NBC's Meet the Press. "Our nuclear deterrent will remain secure, safe and effective in doing so. But we also think we will ultimately be safer if we can introduce the idea that the ...
U.S.-Russia Nuke Treaty Not on the Public's Radar
By David Wood - Politics DailyAt the end of a lonely one-lane North Dakota farm road, beneath a squat, unremarkable concrete building, the elevator descends surprisingly slowly. Eventually its doors open to reveal a cramped space occupied by two junior Air Force officers. Their room smells of disinfectant and floor wax. Banks of computers blink silently. The lieutenants are U.S. missile control officers, and it is from their hands that one or more Minuteman III strategic nuclear missiles might one day burst from their hidden silos and roar toward their targets, each one carrying 20 to 30 times more thermonuclear explosive ...
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