nuclear-news

U.S. – Russia Agreeing to Reduce Nuclear Weapons

U.S., Russia Close In on Arms Nuclear Arms Treaty –  WSJ.com Jonathan Weisman  FEBRUARY 2, 2010 WASHINGTON — U.S. and Russian arms-control negotiators have reached an “agreement in principle” on the first nuclear arms reduction treaty in nearly two decades, administration and arms control officials said Tuesday.

The deal would bring down deployed nuclear warheads and sharply limit the number of missiles and bombers that can deliver them………….

The deal would bring the ceiling for deployed nuclear weapons from the 2,200 agreed to in 1991 down to between 1,500 and 1,675, but nuclear delivery systems would fall more sharply, to between 700 and 800 a side.

U.S., Russia Close In on Arms Nuclear Arms Treaty – WSJ.com

February 3, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, weapons and war | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons