by Jonathan Hiskes
Today President Obama
and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev signed a nuclear arms reduction pact that
slightly limits each country’s stockpile, reinstates inspections, and restores relations
between the two countries. This is good news. Nuclear warfare is not
sustainable.
The New York Times explains
how it works. Money quote:
While the treaty will mandate only modest reductions in the
actual arsenals maintained by the two countries, it caps a turnaround in
relations with Moscow that sunk to rock bottom in August 2008 during the war
between Russia and its tiny southern neighbor, Georgia. When he arrived in
office, Mr. Obama made restoring the relationship a priority, a goal that
coincided with his vision expressed here a year ago of eventually ridding the
world of nuclear weapons.
Fred Kaplan at Slate also has clear analysis, including why Republican senators would be nuts to refuse to ratify the deal.
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