[The new Republican President will have his work cut out for him.
I understood this was a non-binding agreement. If it commits us,
where is the Senate in all this? Don't they have a say in
treaties? --MS]
U.S. Agrees to Total Nuclear Weapons Ban
NewsMax.com
Sunday May 21, 2000
The United States agreed, for the first time since the explosion of the
first atomic weapon in 1945, to totally eliminate its nuclear arsenal.
The sweeping U.S. policy was made Saturday when the U.S. agreed
with all other members of the U.N. Security Council to the
worldwide elimination of nuclear weapons.
The agreement had the full backing of the Clinton administration,
and was endorsed by all five admitted nuclear powers -- the
United States, Russia, Britain, France and China.
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Robert Einhorn led the U.S.
team during the final negotiations.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan, elated at the agreement, declared
it ``marks a significant step forward in humanity's pursuit of a
more peaceful world - a world free of nuclear dangers, a world
with strengthened global norms for nuclear nonproliferation and
disarmament.''
No date or schedule for the disarmament plans have been set. But
the Clinton administration has committed the U.S. to the new
agreement, a continuation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
The new agreement signed Saturday demands the ``unequivocal
undertaking by the nuclear-weapon states to accomplish the total
elimination of their nuclear arsenals leading to nuclear
disarmament.''
Other protocols will require the U.S. to:
--make full disclosure of the nation's nuclear arsenal.
--begin lowering the ``the operational status'' of weapons.
--destroy nuclear warheads by first extracting plutonium and
uranium from them.
--agree to another treaty prohibiting the making of fissile
materials for weapons.
This latest agreement codifies Clinton administration policies
that have sought to reduce and eliminate the U.S. nuclear
stockpile.
During the past eight years almost the entire U.S. tactical
nuclear stockpile - which was estimated at approximately 10,000
weapons - has been destroyed.
The administration has sought to greatly reduce the U.S.
strategic nuclear stockpile, currently with 6000 warheads, to a
modest 1500 warheads.
Such moves have met with some resistance from the Pentagon.
Previous Clinton administration directives, according to some
critics, have increased U.S. vulnerability to a Russian nuclear
strike.
One Clinton directive ended the U.S. policy of "launch on
warning" to one of "launch on destruction" - the U.S. can only
launch a retaliatory strike against Russia or China if it
confirms nuclear detonations on American soil.
Other Clinton administration proposals have called for welding
shut the missile hatch doors on nuclear submarines, and the
removal of computer programs from land-based silos to locations
150 miles from the missile sites.
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