THREATS TO DISARMAMENT AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY

Those agreements have gradually been made meaningless. President George W Bush expressly denounced the ABM Treaty in spring this year. In May the number of warheads allowed to each side under the Start agreements was drastically revised. The missile defence programme, designed for a smaller number of vectors across the globe, will be more operational as a result; and since it will probably involve Russia, it will maintain that country's status as a strategic partner of Washington. Congress has still not ratified the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) signed in 1995. The US government wants to keep all its options for developing new weapons open and reserves the right to conduct real tests, even though it has the ability to simulate them. Secondary treaties are also being weakened. The "cut off" talks on controlling exports of fissile material have been buried by US intransigence. http://threehegemons.tripod.com/threehegemonsblog/id104.html

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