NEWSWATCH AUDIO National Public Radio: New START Nuke Deal With Russia May Be Aging – But It’s Not Over

NPR covers U.S.-Russian nuclear arms control and assessments of New START. ‘

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Five years ago, another big nuclear deal was being signed … known as the New START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) … its aim … simple: to limit the number of nuclear weapons the United States and Russia have pointed at each other.
… like today’s critics of a nuclear deal with Iran, skeptics then called the New START a bad deal for the U.S. But American and Russian experts say that, for all its shortcomings, this arms deal has done more good than harm — for both sides.

Click here for article “New START Nuke Deal With Russia May Be Aging – But It’s Not Over” – National Public Radio – April 11, 2015