Plutonium Page [2] of the Daily Kos talked with Arms Control Association [3] President Daryl Kimball [4] as well as president of the Ploughshares Fund, Joe Cirincione [5] to get a deeper understanding of the Nuclear Posture Review [6] issues under consideration. Kimball outlines the six major issues to be considered. Page asked whether or not a delay in the NPR will affect negotiations on a new START treaty. Kimball said, “... just before the formal START follow-on negotiations began in [Spring 2009], the Obama administration identified those issues in the NPR that related to the START follow-on treaty. In other words, they reached preliminary decisions about what kind of cuts, what kinds of verification, etcetera, would be appropriate at this particular stage, and before the full NPR was completed.”
Links
[1] https://ploughshares.org/file/1426
[2] http://plutonium-page.dailykos.com/
[3] http://www.armscontrol.org
[4] http://www.ploughshares.org/expert/37
[5] http://ploughshares.org/about-us/joseph-cirincione
[6] http://www.nti.org/e_research/e3_nuclear_posture_review_debate.html
[7] http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/1/10/823593/-US-National-Security-Policy-And-Nuclear-Weapons:-Perspectives-on-the-Nuclear-Posture-Review?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20dailykos/index%20%28Daily%20Kos%29