Rumblings from the Right on START

Ploughshares Fund's Kelly Bronk reports on a panel convened by the Heritage Foundation, previewing the emerging right-wing attack line on the Obama Administration’s nuclear policy. Participants in “A START Follow-On Treaty: Russian Nuclear Doctrine, Arms Control Objectives and U.S. Policy Response,” included Heritage’s Ariel Cohen and Baker Spring, Keith Payne, head of the National Institute for Public Policy, and Timothy Morrison, Senator Jon Kyl’s (R-AZ) National Security Policy Adviser. Although most military officials and national security experts believe that the existing START treaty and the START follow-on treaty currently in the final stages of negotiation are integral elements of a smart national security strategy, the rhetoric of the participants seemed frozen in the logic of the Cold War: if something is good for the Russians, it cannot be good for the United States. Click here to read more.