Joe Cirincione: A Security Test for the GOP
America’s military is solidly behind the new security treaty that cuts Russia’s nuclear weapons. Is the Republican Party? The test comes Thursday when Senators have to choose: Back the military or play politics?
At issue is the approval by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee of the New Start treaty that cuts both Russian and US long-range, deployed nuclear weapons by 30 percent. More importantly, it restores the system of inspections put in place by President Ronald Reagan that allowed US inspectors to verify the number and placement of Russian weapons for the past two decades. The inspections stopped last year when the original Reagan START treaty expired. It has been 285 days since US inspectors were allowed to “look under the hood” of Russian weapons, as one military commander put it.
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