Put Up Your Nukes: Researchers Devise "Blind" Verification System for Nuclear Arms Treaty
Thursday, June 27, 2013 - 11:30
in Physics & Chemistry
Pres. Barack Obama has proposed that both the U.S. and Russia continue to deplete their nuclear weapons reserves, encouraging a one-third reduction to arsenal sizes. His June 19 proposal, which did not yet specify a time line for destruction of the weapons reduction, expands on the 2010 New START Treaty between Russia and the U.S., which calls for each country to possess no more than 1,550 warheads by 2018. [More]