U.S. President Barack Obama's team has scored a key foreign policy win and bolstered international stability with a new nuclear arms reduction deal with Russia, say Ploughshares-funded experts. Jeffrey Lewis [2], a nuclear weapons specialist at the Ploughshares Funded New America Foundation [3], said the deal "shows we can still do arms control," addingthat the U.S.has negotiated nothing this complex in over than a decade. Other analysts said the agreement could help pave the way for a deal that includes cuts in tactical or so-called battlefield nuclear weapons. Miles Pomper [4] with the Ploughshares-funded James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies [5], said that the deal gives "some positive momentum" to the upcoming Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) review conference, which requires nuclear powers like Russia and the United States to show progress on disarmament.
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[1] https://ploughshares.org/file/1646
[2] http://www.ploughshares.org/expert/222
[3] http://www.newamerica.net
[4] http://cns.miis.edu/staff/pomper_miles.htm
[5] http://cns.miis.edu/
[6] http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Russia_nuke_deal_hands_Obama_key_foreign_policy_win_analysts_999.html