Zukunft der Atomwaffen

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Arms Control May Be Different Things on Paper and on the Ground

WASHINGTON — An official photograph of a B-52 bomber at Barksdale Air Base in Louisiana shows it with a formidable arsenal of nuclear weapons it can carry all at once — 14 air-launched cruise missiles, four B61-7 gravity bombs and two B83 gravity bombs.

But when it comes to the new arms control treaty to be signed next month by the United States and Russia, those 20 warheads count as just one.

The history of arms control is replete with quirky counting rules that do not easily correspond to reality on the ground, and the “New Start” treaty completed last week is no different. In this case, independent experts said, each side will be able to comply with the treaty while cutting fewer nuclear weapons than it might appear on paper.

In fact, by some estimates, the United States and Russia together could still deploy some 1,300 warheads beyond the 3,100 ceiling imposed on the two countries by the new treaty. Under some configurations, experts argued, the two sides could deploy nearly as many warheads as permitted by the treaty signed in 2002 by President George W. Bush that will be superseded by this new pact.

“It’s creative accounting,” said Pavel Podvig, a longtime arms researcher from Russia who is now on leave from Stanford University. “They found a way of making reductions without actually making them, and they were happy to accept that because nobody wanted to go to more serious measures.”

The Obama administration rejected that interpretation, saying that the arms experts themselves were using creative accounting to argue for deeper cuts and that the numbers they cite are not complete — that the real figures are classified. In any case, they said, the important thing to focus on was the legal limit to be imposed by the new treaty, which brings down the binding cap on deployed warheads by 30 percent......

Also, es scheint tatsächlich war zu sein. Bomber werden als ein Warhead gezählt obgleich eine B52 auch 22 trage kann. Momentan sind 450 Warheads den Bomberkräften zugeteilt, da Bomber nun nicht mehr limitiert sind wird dieselbe Summe wohl am Boden beibehalten werden. Von dieser Rechnung ausgehend wird die reale Reduzierung an Warheads wohl wie der Artikel auch angibt nur ca. 100 Warheads auf US Seite betragen auf russischer 190 Warheds. :lol:




Ich nehme alle Beschwerden gegenüber der Obama Reduzierung zurück, der neue Vertrag gefehlt mir selbst Bush Jr. hätte es nicht besser machen können. Ok er hätte keine Träger reduziert dafür verstand er zu viel von der Materie aber in Vergleich zu den hirnverbrannten radikal Aussagen Obamas ist der Obama vertrag doch ganz gut geworden.