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Obama calls for reduction of Russian nukes



US President Barack Obama delivers a speech at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on June 19, 2013.

US President Barack Obama delivers a speech at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on June 19, 2013.


US President Barack Obama has called on Russia to slash its deployed nuclear weapons by up to a third.



“After a comprehensive review, I've determined that we can ensure the security of America and our allies -- and maintain a strong and credible strategic deterrent -- while reducing our deployed strategic nuclear weapons by up to one-third,” he said in a Wednesday speech in Berlin.

“And I intend to seek negotiated cuts with Russia to move beyond Cold War nuclear postures,” Obama added.


Moscow was quick to react to Obama’s remarks with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin saying Obama’s proposal to reduce nuclear arms cannot be taken seriously.

“How can we take seriously this idea about cuts in strategic nuclear potential while the United States is developing its potential to intercept this strategic potential?” he said, according Russia's Itar-TASS news agency.

Earlier, a Kremlin spokesman said Moscow had told Washington that it wanted other nuclear armed countries to commit to arms cuts.

The US president’s proposal comes two years after an agreement between the US and Russia, known as New START, went into effect.

START, which stands for Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, calls for each nation to restrict its nuclear warhead arsenal to 1,550 by the year 2018.

The US was the first country to create atomic weapons, while being the only nation to drop nuclear bombs on civilians during separate attacks on Japan’s Hiroshima and Nagasaki cities in World War II.




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Originally Posted by asj:

Obama has to be crazy to ever believe that the Russians will listen to the Americans, especially to reduce nukes.

Actually, you are the bloody lunatic. The US and Russia have a history of reducing their nuclear arsenal through negotiations. The US even helped the Russians dismantle and dispose of a few of theirs.

FM



Just as I indicated there is that doubt about Obama


Obama’s call for cuts in nuclear arsenals not serious: Russia



Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin



Russia says US President Barack Obama’s proposal to reduce US and Russian nuclear arsenals cannot be taken seriously while Washington is developing its capabilities to intercept Russia’s missiles.



In a speech in Berlin on Wednesday, Obama said the US wanted to reduce its nuclear capability by a third and would seek to negotiate cuts with Russia.

He also called for reductions in the number of tactical warheads in Europe.

Russia and the US signed a nuclear arms reduction agreement known as New START in 2010. START, which stands for Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, calls for each nation to restrict its nuclear warhead arsenal to 1,550 by the year 2018.

Responding to US president’s remarks, Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said that Moscow "cannot take these assurances seriously."

"How can we take the idea of strategic nuclear weapons reductions seriously when the United States is building up its ability to intercept these strategic nuclear weapons?" he said.


"These things clearly do not go together. It's obvious that Russia's highest political leadership cannot take such proposals seriously," he added.

Rogozin also noted that Obama’s remarks indicate that he "either doesn't understand the essence (of the problem), or he openly lies, or he is deeply unprofessional."

Rogozin said that talk of reducing nuclear arms is inappropriate as long as Washington is still building up new missile systems, particularly one planned to be deployed in Europe.

Moscow has repeatedly objected to the move, saying the would-be system in its "backyard” is not to secure Washington's European allies, but is effectively aimed at Russia.

Moscow has called for the shared control of the system, but Washington refuses to share the responsibility for protecting NATO member states with a third party.

In return, Russia has threatened to aim a new generation of missiles at European military targets and deploy its own missile interceptors.

The US was the first country to build atomic weapons and the only country to drop nuclear bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II.

FM
Originally Posted by Danyael:
Originally Posted by asj:

Obama has to be crazy to ever believe that the Russians will listen to the Americans, especially to reduce nukes.

Actually, you are the bloody lunatic. The US and Russia have a history of reducing their nuclear arsenal through negotiations. The US even helped the Russians dismantle and dispose of a few of theirs.

Resident Welfare Bum, Obama's call for nuke reduction is nothing more than a tactic to draw attention away from war plans against Syria and eventually Iran.

Why cant you stop being a shithead for a while and start to use your brains, and gives answers that make sense.

FM
Originally Posted by asj:
Originally Posted by Danyael:
Originally Posted by asj:

Obama has to be crazy to ever believe that the Russians will listen to the Americans, especially to reduce nukes.

Actually, you are the bloody lunatic. The US and Russia have a history of reducing their nuclear arsenal through negotiations. The US even helped the Russians dismantle and dispose of a few of theirs.

Resident Welfare Bum, Obama's call for nuke reduction is nothing more than a tactic to draw attention away from war plans against Syria and eventually Iran.

Why cant you stop being a shithead for a while and start to use your brains, and gives answers that make sense.

 What a pathetic old creep! Add terrorist Taliban sympathizer and you get a truly horrible personality profile.

 

Obama is doing what is and has always been on the national agenda, reduce nuclear weapons. Syria is another failure of a Muslim nation to be democratic and it is reaping its reward.

 

My brains is getting much use and it is not in fabricating lies to deceive ones self. Why do you pretend I am on welfare if not because your pathetic mind is doing exactly what it does; imagining nonsense so as to make sense to yourself that you exist in reality. Dude, you are in fantasy land. The Taliban are fundamentalist murderers and an anathema to Islam. Afghanistan is not their native home and further, they force their opinion on others at the barrel of a gun. Women and children are not spared.

 

Actually, women are already in the most terrible hell hole in that land with out them habitually beheading them or flogging them. Their belief system does not recognize women or non Muslims. Stick that sick shit in you craw and contemplate on it before making up shi.t about welfare simply to please a need to feel good.

 

And as a reminder, get informed an the decades long attempt at unclear talks to walk away from MAD that ended the cold war and now tries to avoid ever getting back to that Sword of Damociles hanging over the heads or our respective peoples and the world. There is no winning a nuclear war and those needing these weapons need a bargaining chip not a usable option.

FM

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