A joint post by Catherine Dill, Jeffrey Lewis, Melissa Hanham and David Schmerler Two years ago, on 17 July 2014, someone shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight Number 17 (MH17) over an area of Ukraine held by Russian-backed separatists, killing all…
Readers know that I like arguments. Senator Lugar has been making a very good argument about New START and so-called “tactical” nuclear weapons, which are not covered by any strategic arms reduction treaty. Opponents, like Governor Romney, have pointed to…
I was trying to figure out how to mock this terrible, terrible, terrible Mitt Romney op-ed on New START without calling Fred Hiatt a “neocon hack job” (again). But Peter Crail, on my Facebook wall, said it much better than…
We have a bunch of New START documents now, including the article-by-article analysis and an unclassified summary of the 1251 report. I am still a little puzzled by the proposed treaty compliant force structure, but I think — think —…
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, in a Wall Street Journal oped, has announced the force structure for the New START treaty: Based on the recommendations of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, we plan to meet the Treaty’s limits by retaining…
Does the Prague Treaty (aka New START) limit missile defenses? Certainly the text mentions defenses, but does it limit them? “Limit” is a very particular word — The definitions in OED suggest usage most often involves those things that we…
The Russians — big surprise — have released the Russian text of the New START/Prague Treaty and the Protocol. Last I heard, the Obama Administration was planning to wait until the entire packet was submitted to the Senate. Of course,…
Photo credit: John McDowell. (Worth checking out his entire portfolio, by the way). Peter Baker, in the New York Times, has a long piece on the bomber counting rules in the New START (or Prague Treaty). The bottom line —…
Here is the White House Fact Sheet on the terms of the New START Treaty (which we will be calling the Prague Treaty). I’ve got a bunch of meetings all day, but will try to put something up over the…
I’ve been quiet about the START negotiations, save for the occasional tweet, in large part because it doesn’t make sense to second-guess negotiators, especially before they’ve completed their work. (Buy me a beer, on the other hand …) But Senator…
