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Russia’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergey Ryabkov, gave a lengthy reaction at a press conference to the joint report from the Federation of American Scientists and Natural Resources Defense Council, both Ploughshares grantees, From Counterforce to Minimal Deterrence. Hans Kristensen of FAS commended Ryabkov for correctly describing the report as “an analysis of the hypothetical consequences of the use of nuclear weapons against large industrial and infrastructure facilities, as well as of what the losses might be in the case of the use of warheads of varying yield.”
A joint political statement is not like an email or a newspaper column. Each word is negotiated. That is why the April 1 statement from Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev is so remarkable.
A joint political statement is not like an email or a newspaper column. Each word is negotiated. That is why the April 1 statement from Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev is so remarkable. The two leaders spoke with unusual clarity, defining intentions and joint projects.
After President Obama’s Palm Sunday speech in Prague, observers around the world are looking to next month's preparatory meeting of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
President Obama denied that an Iranian-American journalist was a spy and demanded her release, after she was sentenced to eight years in prison for espionage. Reporter Roxana Saberi was convicted by an Iranian revolutionary court of spying for the United States during a closed-door trial.
The Obama administration would consider embracing a new set of procedures for verifying an accord to replace the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, according to a senior State Department official. Questions linger over how the U.S.