Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is expected to announce Friday that Israel and the Palestinians will return to direct negotiations for the first time in 20 months, delivering the Obama administration a small victory in its protracted effort to revive the Middle East peace process, two officials briefed on the situation said Thursday evening. […]
CNN) — President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a major nuclear arms control agreement that reduces the nuclear stockpiles of both nations. The new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), signed Thursday in Prague in the Czech Republic, builds on a previous agreement that expired in December. story compliments of CNN.com […]
The United States will swear off the development of new generations of nuclear weapons and will not use its existing arsenal to attack nonnuclear states that are in compliance with nonproliferation agreements, the Obama administration said Tuesday. The shift, a consequence of the government’s Nuclear Posture Review, reflects the administration’s changing view of the role […]
The United States and Russia have reached “the most comprehensive arms control agreement in nearly two decades,” President Obama said Friday. The agreement cuts by about one-third “the nuclear weapons that the United States and Russia will deploy,” the president said. The new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) will last 10 years, and builds on […]
US President Barack Obama is planning “dramatic reductions” in the country’s nuclear arsenal, a senior US administration official has said. This would come as part of a sweeping policy review designed to prevent the spread of atomic weapons, he said. He added that the new strategy will point to a greater role for conventional weapons. […]
