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MOSCOW. (Andrei Fedyashin, RIA Novosti political...
not parties to the NPT, have since become nuclear powers. Failure by major nuclear powers to agree reductions to their nuclear arsenals will be used by minor ones to justify their continued nuclear programs. If that happens, the decline of the Non-Proliferation Treaty will reach a critical point.Second, Obama needs to see ratification before November so that he has concrete results to show to Congress and to enable him to check the impending inflow of Republicans. The latter, on the contrary, do not need or want to see Obama praised as a great peacemaker at election time.
Admittedly, the White House has just pleased Republican Senators by releasing the Quadrennial Defense Review, which is completed once every four years, and the defense budget for the 2011 financial year. If the Nobel Peace Committee had had any idea of what the U.S. defense budget and the country"s military program for the next four years would be, Obama would never have been awarded the Peace
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