This article says that Russia and The U.S. will sign a new nuclear disarmament treaty in early April inthe Prague. Russian and US negotiators have been in intense talks to agree a successor to the 1991 START treaty,which expired in December. President Obama and Russian President Medvedev agreed last July that the new treaty should reduce the number of warheads on either side to between 1,500 and 1,675. Currently, the US has some 2,200 nuclear warheads, where as Russia has about 3,000. Furthermore, the new treaty also acknowledged a link with the planned US missile defense facilities in Eastern Europe.
I think this is a great idea to create a nuclear arms treaty between the US and Russia. I think nuclear warheads are scary because if one country were to release their warheads on another country, it would create a domino affect. I do not want to imagine what would happen to everybody if the world began releasing all their nuclear missiles and weapons on each other. I'm glad that Obama and the Russian president are working to reduce the number of warheads.
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I wonder how far each side would be willing to go to reduce the number of nuclear weapons. I feel that the only reason the U.S. and Russia are willing to give up a few hundred weapons is because the reduction does not really make a difference. It is simply the difference between blowing the world up 20 time over versus 5 times over.
How much of a difference do these treaties make? One thing is for sure: for any country to give up their nuclear weapons in this nuclear age would be unthinkable, even suicidal, given the right circumstances.
I wonder if both will folow this treaty, because in history neither side has been willing to sign nuclear treaties. I hope this will work because i dont want to risk another cold war, or any nuclear bombs being used on different countries.
These treaties might not have an effect on either side's ability to completely obliterate each other, but I think it still has some meaning as a sign to the rest of the world that they aren't just talking about nuclear disarmament, but are taking steps, albeit small ones, to help reach that goal.
It also helps when dealing with countries that are pursuing nuclear weapons of their own. Now when the U.S. try to get them to stop their research efforts, they can point to the treaty as a sign that the U.S. is reducing nuclear arms in its own country as well as in other ones, and that talks about global disarmament are not just rhetoric.
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