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Thursday, July 04, 2013

Next US-Russia Arms Talks Could Involve Short-Range Nuclear Weapons

B-61 bombPresident Barack Obama has made reducing nuclear weapons worldwide a priority of his administration.

The New START treaty limits to 1,550 deployed long-range nuclear warheads on 700 deployed strategic nuclear delivery systems such as long-range rockets and heavy bombers.

But the new agreement does not address the issue of short-range, tactical nuclear weapons. Those are mounted on land or air-launched missiles with a range of less than 500 kilometers - so-called “battlefield weapons” used alongside conventional forces.

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