Russia Has Cheated on Nuclear Treaty, U.S. is Said to Admit in Closed Briefings

Senior Obama administration officials informed congressional lawmakers in a closed-door 2012 briefing that Russia was not abiding by a bilateral arms control accord that bans the fielding of intermediate-range missiles, the Daily Beast reported on Tuesday.

The 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty required both Russia and the United States to eliminate all of their nuclear and non-nuclear ballistic and cruise missiles with maximum flight distances between roughly 300 miles and 3,400 miles. Russia's testing of the SS-25 mobile intercontinental ballistic missile and of the new-model RS-26, optimized for penetrating missile defenses, may have raised the concerns about violating the accord's range restrictions, according to the website. However, the alleged focus of the cheating remains secret.

Last November during a classified session, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Strategic Affairs Madelyn Creedon and acting Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Rose Gottemoeller told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Moscow was in breach of the INF accord, according to the report, which cites two unnamed U.S. officials who were at the briefing.

Then-Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-Mass.) blasted the reported treaty transgressions: "If we're going to have treaties with people, we've got to adhere to them," he was said to have groused.

"We're not going to pass another treaty in the U.S. Senate if our colleagues are sitting up here knowing somebody is cheating," said Kerry, now secretary of State, according to two officials with access to the classified record of the briefing.

Twelve Republican senators are backing an amendment to their chamber's fiscal 2014 national defense authorization bill that would require the State and Defense departments to brief Congress on compliance issues related to the INF pact.

"The administration's been candid with Congress about a range of countries where we have ongoing treaty compliance issues ... and that includes concerns we have raised with Russia," an anonymous Obama official told the Daily Beast. "Determinations about non-compliance are made after a careful process, but Congress is in the loop."

Senator James Risch (R-Idaho), who sponsored the amendment to the NDAA bill, is one of several senators reportedly blocking Gottemoeller from being confirmed to the position of undersecretary of State. Sources told the Daily Beast that Gottemoeller is also in the running to become the next U.S. envoy to Russia.

http://www.nti.org/gsn/article/obama-officials-admitted-2012-briefi...

Views: 74

Reply to This

Replies to This Discussion

 

Source is NTI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Threat_Initiative

nonprofit organization founded in 2001 by Ted Turner and Sam Nunn

Advisors to the Board include:

Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
Dr. David A. Hamburg, President Emeritus of Carnegie Corporation of New York
Siegfried S. Hecker, Director Emeritus of the Los Alamos National Laboratory

:(

Actually, the source is Daily Beast, that has its own problems for sure, but if we only read things that don't require our own critical thought, we'd be SOL.
I subscribe to NTI BECAUSE it is a US/UN military mouthpiece.

The writer Josh Rogin

Josh Rogin is senior correspondent for national security and politics for The Daily Beast. He previously worked at Newsweek, Foreign Policy magazine, ...

2008, The Washington Post Company announced that they had purchased Foreign Policy from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.[2]

RSS

"Destroying the New World Order"

TOP CONTENT THIS WEEK

THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING THE SITE!

mobile page

12160.info/m

12160 Administrators

 

Latest Activity

Doc Vega's 4 blog posts were featured
7 hours ago
cheeki kea's 2 blog posts were featured
7 hours ago
Doc Vega commented on tjdavis's blog post Mountain Miracle
"A creative way to get hands on participation with students and the community."
7 hours ago
Doc Vega favorited tjdavis's blog post Mountain Miracle
7 hours ago
Doc Vega posted a blog post

The Perfect Lies

The Perfect Lies Time is like an ocean with its secrets running deepLike all the lovers you’ve…See More
8 hours ago
tjdavis posted blog posts
12 hours ago
tjdavis posted a blog post
yesterday
Doc Vega posted blog posts
Thursday
rlionhearted_3 posted a photo
Thursday
Doc Vega commented on Doc Vega's blog post And on November 5th The People Spoke!
"cheeki kea Ha! Good one!"
Thursday
Doc Vega commented on tjdavis's video
Thursday
Doc Vega favorited tjdavis's video
Thursday
cheeki kea commented on Doc Vega's blog post And on November 5th The People Spoke!
"Congrats to Trump club and let the memes begin.... first ones off the block emerge as follows.."
Thursday
Doc Vega posted blog posts
Wednesday
Doc Vega posted a blog post

The State of Being

The State of Being Who really cares?Are you really there?When life’s too much to bareWith all the…See More
Tuesday
Doc Vega posted blog posts
Nov 3
cheeki kea commented on cheeki kea's video
Nov 3
cheeki kea posted a video

Ivermectin and Cancers

Ivermectin, a potential anticancer drug derived from an antiparasitic drug https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7505114/Mechanisms of actionIVM induc...
Nov 3
cheeki kea commented on tjdavis's blog post Call For Israel To Join Five Eyes
Nov 3
tjdavis posted a video

David Gilmour with Romany Gilmour - Between Two Points (Later... with Jools Holland)

David Gilmour with Romany Gilmour perform Between Two Points on Later... with Jools Holland. Watch more Later... with Jools Holland on BBC iPlayer: bbc.co.uk...
Nov 3

© 2024   Created by truth.   Powered by

Badges  |  Report an Issue  |  Terms of Service

content and site copyright 12160.info 2007-2019 - all rights reserved. unless otherwise noted