President Obama sent National Security Adviser James L. Jones and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen to Moscow on Wednesday to clear the last hurdles to a new nuclear pact, but some observers worry that U.S. missiles soon be deployed near Russian territory could complicate the talks. But Daryl Kimball [2], executive director of the Arms Control Association [3], said the Patriot missiles "should be a nonissue for Russia" because "this system poses no threat to Russian defense forces, and it is a symbolic gesture of the existing U.S. security commitment to Poland...Russia is not and should not be looking for excuses to blow up the new treaty," he said. "Russia's longer-term concern is all about potential future numbers and locations of the SM-3 interceptors in Eastern Europe that were outlined as the Obama administration's new missile defense approach."
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[1] https://ploughshares.org/file/1454
[2] http://www.ploughshares.org/expert/37
[3] http://www.armscontrol.org
[4] http://washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jan/21/missiles-threaten-nuclear-pact/?feat=home_headlines