{"id":991,"date":"2010-03-27T02:08:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T09:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=991"},"modified":"2010-03-27T02:08:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T09:08:48","slug":"obama-strikes-arms-control-treaty-with-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/27\/obama-strikes-arms-control-treaty-with-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Strikes Arms Control Treaty with Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Considering GOP claims that Obama is ineffectual in the foreign policy realm, his success exposes their lies.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"obama-and-medvedev\"<\/a> After nearly a year of very difficult negotiations, the White House and the <\/font><\/span>Kremlin<\/font><\/a> have announced a new strategic nuclear arms reduction treaty, also known as New START, which they will sign in Prague <\/font><\/span>on April 8, 2010<\/font><\/a>. The first START treaty was signed by Presidents George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991; <\/font><\/span>the history<\/font><\/a> since then has been rocky and complex, but at least we’ve made some progress.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

Here are the key details of New START, via a White House <\/font><\/span>press release<\/font><\/a>:<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

Treaty Structure:<\/span> The New START Treaty is organized in three tiers of increasing level of detail.The first tier is the Treaty text itself.The second tier consists of a Protocol to the Treaty, which contains additional rights and obligations associated with Treaty provisions.The basic rights and obligations are contained in these two documents.The third tier consists of Technical Annexes to the Protocol.All three tiers will be legally binding.The Protocol and Annexes will be integral parts of the Treaty and thus submitted to the U.S. Senate for its advice and consent to ratification.<\/font><\/p>\n

Strategic Offensive Reductions:<\/span>Under the Treaty, the U.S. and Russia will be limited to significantly fewer strategic arms within seven years from the date the Treaty enters into force.Each Party has the flexibility to determine for itself the structure of its strategic forces within the aggregate limits of the Treaty.These limits are based on a rigorous analysis conducted by Department of Defense planners in support of the 2010 Nuclear Posture Review.<\/font><\/p>\n

Aggregate limits:<\/font><\/p>\n