A New START

Russia and the United States reached a new arms treaty today. This will last ten years and replaces the other START treaties that have been created since the Cold War. Nuclear weapons will be cut by one-third by both countries. I don't see this as doing much considering the fact that each country could destroy the world multiple times over. So reducing the number of weapons by one-third is just saying that we can destroy the world just a few less times. However, the symbolic effects of this treaty may be more far reaching.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/03/26/start.treaty/index.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joe-cirincione/the-start-of-a-new-obama_b_515305.html