Reducing or Increasing the Nuclear Threat

By Garwin, Richard L.

Book Id: WPLBN0000150765
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Reproduction Date: 2008

Title:	Reducing or Increasing the Nuclear Threat
Author:	Garwin, Richard L.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, Legislation., Government Printing Office (U.S.)
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Introduction: Since I will be otherwise occupied in WG3: CBW and WMD Terrorism, I thought it might be useful to record my views on the topic of WG1: Eliminating Nuclear Weapons. Events Of The Last Year: On May 24, 2002, President's George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin signed the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty, which commits each side to reduce its strategic nuclear weapons to 1700-2200 by December 31, 2012. The Treaty then expires. There is no agreement in the Treaty text as to what constitutes a strategic nuclear weapon. The Treaty refers to statements by the two Presidents, according to which the United States apparently will count operationally deployed strategic nuclear weapons, while Russia intends to limit all strategic nuclear weapons. In any case, in official statements the United States has made clear that it has no commitment to destroy or to render unusable nuclear weapons removed from the operationally deployed status. And, specifically, it intends to retain many of these for upload within days, weeks, months, or years. President Bush's National Security Advisor, Condoleezza Rice, has emphasized that no previous treaty required the destruction of the nuclear weapons, and that we don't know how to go about it, anyhow. And Secretary Rumsfeld has deemed it irresponsible to destroy substantial numbers of U.S. nuclear weapons.

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