Ploughshares Fund's Kelly Bronk [2] 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 [3],” included Heritage’s Ariel Cohen [4] and Baker Spring [5], Keith Payne [6], 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 [7] to read more [7].
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[1] https://ploughshares.org/file/1354
[2] http://www.ploughshares.org/about-us/kelly-bronk-0
[3] http://www.heritage.org/press/events/ev120109a.cfm
[4] http://www.heritage.org/about/staff/ArielCohen.cfm
[5] http://www.heritage.org/about/STAFF/BakerSpring.cfm
[6] http://www.nipp.org/Professional/Bio%27s/paynek.html
[7] http://www.ploughshares.org/news-analysis/blog/rumblings-right-start