Many people are scared of the idea of more and more countries possessing nuclear arms. Nuclear arms are powerful and not only need to be handled responsibly but there also needs to be knowledge and an agreement between countries about how many each can possess. Wednesday, Obama signed documents for America's new nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia. This consensus is known as the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty ( New START) and is replacing START 1, which expired in December 2009. The treaty is meant to lower the large amounts of strategic nuclear weapons in both countries from the current capacity of 2,200 warheads and 700 launchers to 1,550 warheads. This agreement also requires the resumption of inspecetion of nuclear weapons. Obama said this is, " The most significant arms control agreement in nearly two decades." I think this is a good move because both the US and Russia have a large amount of nuclear weapons, which can be threatening to other countries, increasing their chances of competing. We should have enough to defend our country if we ever needed to, which I hope so much is never the case. But we do not need such a large amount that other countries are uneasy about it.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/02/02/obama.start/index.html#
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