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This 4 page paper discusses the new START treaty, reductions under START I, the Zero Option and predictable Republican reaction to the new agreement. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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in fits and starts. This paper considers some of the recent literature on the START Treaty, the reductions made by both the U.S. and U.S.S.R., and how the START Treaty
fits in with the much older ABM Treaty. Discussion Since the end of the Cold War, the threat of nuclear annihilation has receded and issues regarding nuclear disarmament have been
preempted by other, seemingly more urgent concerns such as terrorism, climate change and a global recession. However, the START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) Treaty expired in , bringing the
issue to the center of foreign policy debate once again. It is contentious, to say the least. The poisonous partisan atmosphere in Washington, D.C. is quite likely to mean that
information about the treaty will be heavily biased by whichever party is releasing the data. We can try to cut through the noise and see what various sources have to
say. David Cooper, writing in Strategic Forum, notes that critics have been quick to jump on President Obama, accusing him of making too many concessions to the Russians even before
in-depth negotiations begin.1 Cooper argues that a "positive outcome" to the treaty negotiations would provide "modest ancillary benefits" for "several higher priority objectives," such as bringing greater international pressure to
bear on "nuclear proliferators such as Iran" and presumably now, North Korea.2 That is, the concessions that President Obama has made thus far could reap much greater benefits in future.
However, such benefits would not be worth major U.S. concessions unless "favorable external linkages" were included; these linkages mean "explicit Russian offsets to address higher priority nuclear dangers in
return for concessions favoring Moscows strategic interests."3 Such thinking would have been unimaginable 20 years ago, but with the new cooperation between Russia and the United States, there is reason
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