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| Obama's key arms-control nominee finally confirmed by Senate | |
| 2014-03-07 | |
| WASHINGTON, March 6 (Yonhap) -- After a long partisan struggle, President Barack Obama secured Senate confirmation Thursday on his pick for a top State Department post on arms control and nonproliferation. The Senate voted 58-42 to confirm Rose Gottemoeller to become undersecretary of state for arms control and international security. The confirmation put an end to nearly a year-long dispute over the nomination and it is expected to give a fresh boost to Obama's global nonproliferation drive. Gottemoeller was nominated to the high-profile post in May. Having served as assistant secretary for arms control, verification, and compliance, she already played a major role in the Obama government's efforts to reduce weapons of mass destruction around the world. She is known for her work on denuclearizing Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan after the fall of the Soviet Union.
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #2 Arms control created the situation in Ukraine. "When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the newly independent Ukraine had on its territory what was the third largest strategic nuclear weapons arsenal in the world. It was larger than those of Britain, France, and China combined. On June 1, 1996 Ukraine became a non-nuclear nation when it sent the last of its 1,900 strategic nuclear warheads to Russia for dismantling." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_and_Ukraine) For doing that they received a 'promise' that they're territorial integrity would be respected. If they still had those nukes, how keen do you think Russia would be to invade Crimea? Do you think Iran is ignorant of this history and reality? Do you think they don't now fully realize (like they ever didn't - lol) that the only way NOT to be invaded is to possess nukes? Smart Diplomacy! |
| Posted by: spiffo 2014-03-07 11:20 |
| #1 Horse, barn door. OBE |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-03-07 08:50 |