U.S., Russia Reach Nuclear Arms Accord, Kremlin Says (Update2)

business week ^ | 3/24/10 | Anna Shiryaevskaya and Roger Runningen

[Nachum]

March 24 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. and Russian negotiators have reached agreement on all elements of a nuclear arms reduction treaty, a Kremlin official said.

Prague is the most likely site for a signing ceremony, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with Kremlin policy. Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev will determine the time and place for the signing, the official said in a telephone interview today.

In Washington, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the two sides are “very close” on terms for a replacement for the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, which expired in December.

[Nachum]

The list, ping

[Longbow1969]

Oh, there can’t be anything good about this.

[chipper dave]

Now I am going to hide under my desk! lol

[marstegreg]

The Russians lost respect for this President long ago. They will tell him what ever he wants to hear, and do the opposite.

[Oceander]

In other words, Obama has agreed to give up the US nuclear arsenal for nothing more than a permanent place on Putin's Christmas Card list.

[pabianice]

Gotta be ratified by the Senate...

[dfwgator]

BFD!

[henkster]

Funny; I hadn’t heard that we were working on a new nuclear arms treaty. To have a treaty worked up that quickly tells me that it’s pretty one-sided. Like Munich.

Putin and Medvedev have got to be slapping themselves on the back in the Kremlin, laughing and saying: “I can’t believe it was THAT easy!” Or however you would say it in Russian.

[Voter62vb]

The Russians gotta love playing poker with this bunch of scholars....

[your local physicist]

Medvedev and Obama have made signing a new nuclear arms accord a priority as they try to repair ties that sank to a post-Cold War low under Obama’s predecessor, George W. Bush.

When did Business Week become a liberal rag? We had excellent relations with Russia during the Bush Administration. Putin and Bush were close friends and worked together continuously in the war on terror.