{"id":41155,"date":"2018-12-01T12:52:22","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T17:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41155"},"modified":"2018-12-01T12:52:22","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T17:52:22","slug":"us-lawmakers-introduce-bill-to-kill-prospects-for-arms-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41155","title":{"rendered":"US Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Kill Prospects for Arms Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<header><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" title=\"US Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Kill Prospects for Arms Control\" src=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/images\/news\/2018\/12\/01\/or-41838.jpg?138324\" alt=\"US Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Kill Prospects for Arms Control\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2018\/12\/01\/us-lawmakers-introduce-bill-to-kill-prospects-for-arms-control.html\">US Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Kill Prospects for Arms Control<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<p>US Senator Tom Cotton and Congresswoman Liz Cheney have introduced a bill that prevents extending the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) with Russia or the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cotton.senate.gov\/?p=press_release&amp;id=1025\">Stopping Russia Nuclear Aggression Act<\/a>. It says \u201c<em>Under no circumstances should the United States agree to extend the New START Treaty beyond the current expiration in 2021 without drastic improvements to the deeply flawed deal<\/em>.\u201d The bill includes the provision of Russia\u2019s agreement to verifiably reduce its stockpile of\u00a0tactical nuclear weapons. It also stipulates that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2018\/03\/05\/russia-new-super-weapons-its-high-tech-economy-will-be-built-peace.html\">new weapons<\/a> mentioned in the President Putin\u2019s famous speech in March must be included into the count.<\/p>\n<p>New START limits the US and Russia each to no more than 1,550 deployed strategic warheads and 700 deployed strategic delivery vehicles. Effective since 2011, the agreement covers a 10-year period until February 2021 with\u00a0the possibility of\u00a0a five-year extension. So far, the talks on extending the agreement have not been kicked off to the dismay of many arms control wonks.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2018\/10\/21\/us-tears-up-landmark-inf-treaty.html\">has announced<\/a> his intention to jettison the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty citing Russia\u2019s alleged \u201cviolation\u201d and the \u201cthreat\u201d supposedly coming from China. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2017\/02\/27\/president-trump-decries-new-start-treaty.html\">\u00a0Decried<\/a> by the president last year, New START may be next up on the chopping block. He does not like anything done during President Obama\u2019s tenure. The other option is an analog of the 2002 Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT), which limited deployed warheads without verification provisions.\u00a0According to Andrea Thompson, Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, the future of New Start depends on Moscow\u2019s readiness to limit the new strategic systems President Putin mentioned in his famous speech in March.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Kill Prospects for Arms Control US Senator Tom Cotton and Congresswoman Liz Cheney have introduced a bill that prevents extending the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) with Russia or the Stopping Russia Nuclear Aggression Act. It says \u201cUnder no circumstances should the United States agree to extend the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[16085,23291,23292,23290,2583,694,8203,827],"class_list":["post-41155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-andrei-akulov","tag-new-start","tag-new-strategic-arms-reduction-treaty","tag-nuclear-treaties","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-russia","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41156,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41155\/revisions\/41156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}