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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Nuclear Policy Gamble</title>
		<link>http://www.uspolicyinabigworld.com/2010/04/08/obamas-nuclear-policy-gamble/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama knows that he cannot just abolish all US nuclear weapons. Such a policy would endanger America’s national security so long as other states have them. So how can Obama win Middle East support in his effort to keep isolating Iran? He is offering a concession to Arab leaders and others who feel as they do.]]></description>
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		<title>The Bomb and the Shield</title>
		<link>http://www.uspolicyinabigworld.com/2009/09/23/russia-and-iran-the-bomb-and-the-shield/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:23:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The scrapping of the ABM (Anti-Ballistic Missile) system, or missile shield, in Eastern Europe must be put in the proper perspective to see what that decision does and does not affect. On a positive note, US-Russia relations will improve slightly and Russia will be encouraged to conclude the nuclear arms treaty with the US this December (see “US-Russia Summit: Nukes and Interceptors”) now that it thinks its strategic deterrent is safe. On the down side, Iran’s quest for nuclear weapons continues and Russia’s political support in this regard is not guaranteed. The actual reasons for why President Obama cancelled the ABM system will be debated for years to come. The likely reasons were Russia’s adamant objection to the missile shield’s location and its threats to destroy it, and that the US was trapped in a losing position from the start (see: “Obama Scraps the ABM System”). Other reasons probably included Obama’s goal to finalize the nuclear weapons treaty with Russia and to improve US-Russia relations in general because the latter can encourage Russian cooperation on other foreign policy issues that are critical to the US. It is also possible that Obama used the ABM dispute to strike a secret deal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Scraps the ABM System</title>
		<link>http://www.uspolicyinabigworld.com/2009/09/21/russia-obama-scraps-the-abm-system/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:21:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While President Obama’s scrapping of the ABM (anti-ballistic missile) system in Poland and the Czech Republic may appear on the surface to reduce America and Western Europe’s security, it was the right move. Placing ten interceptors next to Russia was a bad chess move because it overextended a critical US military component too near to a hostile territory. It was like moving one&#8217;s pawn across a chessboard alone to fight the opponent’s queen. Deadly as the pawn may be, it is no match for the queen. The ABM system, a defensive military system, also called a “missile shield,” was proposed by President Bush in 2006 and involved placing ten interceptors in underground silos in Poland. A radar tracking system nearby in the Czech Republic would work together with the interceptors. According to the Bush administration, the missile shield was necessary to protect Europe from missile launches from Iran and North Korea. It would also protect from accidental launches (from Russia?). However, from the Russian perspective the question of US intent was moot because the missile shield potentially threatened Russia’s strategic arsenal (its nuclear missiles) due to its location near the Russian border. This made the missile shield a national security [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S.-Russia Summit: Nukes and Interceptors</title>
		<link>http://www.uspolicyinabigworld.com/2009/07/06/us-russia-summit-nukes-and-interceptors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The three-day US-Russia 2009 Summit begins today. Several global issues will be discussed but the most important one between the two powers will be nukes and interceptors. The 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) that went into effect on December 5, 1994 expires on December 5 of this year so the summit hopes to secure a successor treaty. American and Russian officials held four rounds of closed-door negotiations for a new treaty between April 24 and June 24. Observers of the summit should be aware of the precarious status of the US-Russia relationship and why it is the way it is. Current US-Russia tension centers primarily on three issues: NATO expansion eastward into the former Soviet sphere, or Central and Eastern Europe, the post-Cold War US military buildup, and the US desire to place an anti ballistic missile defense (ABM) system in Central Europe. These issues guide Russian foreign policy vis-à-vis any new strategic arms treaty with the US and the future tone of the US-Russia relationship. US policy in Central and Eastern Europe after the collapse of the Soviet Union was to draw as many of the former Soviet states into NATO as possible. Russia in 1991 was devastated [...]]]></description>
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