| Mostly creative accounting rather than real cuts in warheads OpposingArgument1 #56129 Almost all of the advertised cuts will be accomplished by changing the way warheads are counted. |
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Author: Pavel Podvig
Cited by: David Price 3:35 PM 5 April 2010 GMT
Citerank: (5) 55600START follow-on Treaty does not deliver meaningful changeThe START follow-on treaty is a symbolic at best, and does not signify meaningful change.959C6EF, 56130B-52 assumed to carry only one bomb but it's equipped to carry 20A B-52 is assumed to carry only one bomb, for example, even though it is equipped (and will be allowed) to carry 20.1198CE71, 56131 Obama is "condemning the nation to unilateral disarmament"Through the "New Start" agreement and other policies, claims former Reagan administration official Frank Gaffney Jr., Obama is "condemning the nation to unilateral disarmament."1198CE71, 56139It is impossible to win a nuclear war1198CE71, 128833It is impossible to win a nuclear war1198CE71
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| Excerpt / Summary The treaty is supposed to slash arsenals by 30 percent. In reality, it will fall well short of that because of strange counting rules. A B-52 is assumed to carry only one bomb, for example, even though it is equipped (and will be allowed) to carry 20.
Pavel Podvig, a physicist at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation, says almost all of the advertised cuts "will be accomplished by changing the way warheads are counted." It's like saying I'm going to lose 20 pounds, with each actual pound counting as 10. |