Russia Asked To Give Up Nuclear Arms

[BuyingThyme]

http://www.globalzero.org/

Sunday, December 07, 2008
Updated at 07 December 2008 23:59 Moscow Time.
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Russia Asked To Give Up Nuclear Arms

WASHINGTON — A new international group committed to eliminating nuclear weapons over the next 25 years has enlisted scores of world leaders as its campaign gets under way at a conference in Paris on Tuesday.

"The aim is to get to zero," said Richard Burt, chief strategic weapons negotiator for President George H.W. Bush.

The group, Global Zero, is proposing deep cuts in U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals, a verification and enforcement system and phased reduction leading to the elimination of all stockpiles.

After the kickoff meeting, delegations will go to Moscow for talks with Russian officials on Wednesday and to Washington to see Bush administration officials and possibly advisers to President-elect Barack Obama on Thursday.

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http://www.themoscowtimes.com/article/1010/42/372950.htm

[DainBramaged]

1. How do you get the Israelis to give up theirs?

[BuyingThyme]

2. Make sure Iran gets hers?

[BunkerHill24]

3. Word!

[stillcool]

4. If they gave up a few thousand..

they could spread them around so everyone would have one.

Estimated Number of Nuclear Warheads
BBC website, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4504737.stm, May 2, 2005
Source: Arms Control Association 2004

Russia 8,500 (plus 11,000 stockpiled)
United States 7,000 (plus 3,000 stockpiled)
China 420
France 350
UK 200
Israel 75-200
India 45-95
Pakistan 30-50

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Weapons/Nuclear_Warheads.html

[Jack_DeLeon]

5. Good luck with that lol.

n/t