Obama brings world peace

[BeBMan]

Assuming that Russia will simply sell nukes over the limit is absurd. There will be a verification regime as it was there in earlier cases, and the dismantling/destruction will be monitored on both sides as in earlier cases (both countries had much more nukes at the end of the cold war), cuz it is in the interest of both sides not to have nukes unaccounted for.

Some people watch too many movies.

[SlowwHand]

Let's get realistic. Cutting to 1500, or even 1000 as Herc suggested? Does anyone actually envision hundreds of nuke explosions? Speaking of...overkill.

[Lorizael]

I think there's probably very little middle ground with nukes. I can see one or two being used here and there, and I can see all of them being used, but I can't see any sort of limited, but non-isolated use of them.

[Ben Kenobi]

Assuming that Russia will simply sell nukes over the limit is absurd. There will be a verification regime as it was there in earlier cases, and the dismantling/destruction will be monitored on both sides as in earlier cases (both countries had much more nukes at the end of the cold war), cuz it is in the interest of both sides not to have nukes unaccounted for.

I'm assuming they would 'decommission' them, but the nukes would still be there. Its in the interest in having the US destroy their nukes, and to keep as many as they can.

[BeBMan]

I'm assuming they would 'decommission' them, but the nukes would still be there.

That's what happened after GWB and HappyPutin negotiated the SORT treaty

Under START I a number of systems were destroyed indeed, and it was monitored. START II is another question, but then it never really got going.

[Serb]

I'm wondering if this will make Putin happy.

No sh!t, Sherlock.

[Serb]

The United States and Russia have agreed a deal to cut back their stockpiles of nuclear weapons.

Oh goody, we're going to cut back on our 10,000 nuclear weapons. Does this mean we will have 9,000 when Obama leaves office?

Your information is so God damn odsolete.

[Serb]

Why not "Medvedev brings wold peace"? That's just as accurate, though still laughable.

Doesn't really matter who exactly. Obama rocks! Yeah, this is the sig material, I know that.

MOSCOW – President Barack Obama said he and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev are countering "a sense of drift" in relations between their nations with preliminary agreement Monday to reduce the world's two largest nuclear stockpiles to as few as 1,500 warheads each.

Way to go If only we could reduce it to zero.

[Serb]

The thing they don't tell you is Obama has researched merculite missiles to replace the nuclear missiles.

Nobody else has appreciated the joke. I did.

[Serb]

The Russians finding their nukes so they can be disarmed = good

Very funny

[Serb]

Yeah, they'll just send them all to Chechnya and set them off though

Oh great! Another great dumb comment. Get laid already.

[Serb]

Trust, but verify.

Or has everyone forgotten we are dealing with Russians?

Or has anyone here forgotten that we are dealing with double-talking, lying Americans?

Either we start to trust each other or nothing will ever change. Don't **** with us anymore. We are not your enemy any longer. Wake-up already.

[Serb]

Oh yea we do. In case everyone else runs out we sell ous off. Russia is gonna do the same to the guys without the big guns, so why not we do the same for the "good guys"?

And Russia is still a bad guy in your universe, right?

[Serb]

LOL

Didn't read the original article until now:

Quote:
Each country to cut deployed nuclear warheads to 1,500-1,675 (currently 1,700-2,200)

Yes Obama our saviour indeed.

You just get it wrong. The point is that previous Russia-US agreement is about to expire (this year). If there is no new treaty signed, both sides are free to have whatever stockpile they wish. We can go back to 20+K warheads (like it was during the Cold War) and it could be pretty legal, since the treaty has expired.

[Serb]

Some people watch too many movies.

Edited: Some dumb people watch too many dumb Hollywood movies.