<http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/2010/07/22/surprise-obamas-strategic-arm s-control-treaty-favors-russia-at-americas-expense/> Surprise: Obama's Strategic Arms Control Treaty Favors Russia at America's Expense <http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/author/doctorbulldog/> doctorbulldog | 22 July, 2010 at 8:44 am | Categories: <http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/category/nuclear/> Nuclear, <http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/category/obama-sucks/> Obama Sucks, <http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/category/russian-connection/> Russian Connection, <http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/category/politics/> politics | URL: <http://wp.me/p1NPg-6jT> http://wp.me/p1NPg-6jT Okay, so it's not really all that surprising to any of us who have been paying attention to Obama's disastrous policies which always seem to be aimed at undermining America's security and independence: New START: White House Figures Are Deceptive By: Baker Spring - <http://blog.heritage.org/2010/07/21/new-start-white-house-figures-are-decep tive/> The Heritage Foundation According to press <http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iLxDjhE67P2IVhWnnDg9gLlTc cawD9H368T80> reports, an undisclosed State Department report on the new strategic arms control treaty with Russia, called New START, reveals that the Obama Administration is not concerned about the implications of Russian cheating under the treaty. Specifically, the State Department report supposedly states that "any Russian cheating under the treaty would have little effect, if any, on the assured second-strike capabilities of U.S. strategic forces." New START is now being examined by a variety of Senate committees in advance of a possible future vote in the Senate on consenting to the ratification of the treaty. Up until now, Senate examination has made it appear that the Obama Administration was willing to use New START as a means for accepting a parity relationship with Russia in terms strategic nuclear forces. This development represented a huge concession to Russia because the treaty will force the U.S. to limit its strategic nuclear force in accordance with Russia's lesser near-term capacity to field such forces. The State Department's report makes it clear that the Obama Administration's real concession to Russia will be far larger. This is because it effectively concedes that the Administration really favors a "minimum deterrence" strategic nuclear force, where a large disparity in the numbers of strategic nuclear warheads in favor of Russia is determined to be insignificant. Under the minimum deterrence policy, the U.S. will give to Russia a many-fold advantage in the numbers of deployed strategic nuclear delivery systems and warheads. This comes at a time where Russia already has such an advantage in the number of non-strategic nuclear weapons. The outlines of a minimum deterrence posture are described in an <http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/04/targeting.php> April 2009 report issued by the Federation of American Scientists and the Natural Resources Defense Council. According to this report, the numbers of weapons in the U.S. arsenal can safely be reduced to roughly 1,000 by 2020, and later to 500 because the U.S. should radically and unilaterally change its nuclear deterrence doctrine. This recommendation comes despite the fact that New START's ceiling is 1,550 accountable warheads and Russia plans to maintain in excess of 2,000 real warheads. Apparently, the Obama Administration's assertions about the kind of strategic nuclear force the U.S. would retain under New START in its Nuclear Posture Review is little more than subterfuge. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [email protected]. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [email protected] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. 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