Tentative Inspection Program Would Allow Russia to Visit U.S. Nuclear Sites, page 1
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reply posted on 19-10-2009 @ 01:21 PM by fraterormus
This comes in light of the final phase of Detente between the United States and the Russian Commonwealth of States.

Already, under current Treaty, the Russians ship their decommissioned nuclear weapons to Texas to be dismantled. Both sides have reduced their respective arsenals to under 10,000 warheads each.

Currently on the table, between these two nations, is a Treaty that would call for those arsenals to be further reduced to no more than 1,600 warheads each.

Both sides may continue to harbor mistrust of one another, as we once were Cold War enemies, and we may not even see eye to eye currently, but the hostilities are long over, and like it or not, Russia is now an Ally and may even be joining NATO and is in talks with the EU currently.

If we want to continue friendly relations, and see a further end to mutual nuclear disarmament, then it is requisite that both sides are willing to be open enough with one another to allow inspections to ensure that the decommissioned Russian warheads are indeed being dismantled in Texas and not added to the United States arsenal, and that we have been living up to our end of the bargain in dismantling our own. It's all comes down to a matter of trust and cooperation.

Personally, I see no harm in doing such and think it's actually a step in the right direction. We may have issues with how Russia is treating Georgia at the moment, but that doesn't mean we can't remain united in our mutual nuclear disarmament. We owe it to our children and our children's children to do whatever it takes to continue down that same path we've been on since the late 1980's in mutual disarmament to give them a nuclear free future.
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