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...this point Putin wants no part of any tinkering with the ABM treaty, fearing that it would open the door to a larger U.S. shield than Clinton says he wants to deploy, which Moscow cannot afford to match and which would threaten its nuclear deterrence. He has warned Clinton that Russia will abandon all arms-control treaties if the U.S. builds a national missile defense...
While this analysis provides some reassurance to Russia, which would probably be able to deploy more than 1,000 strategic warheads throughout the next ten years, such defenses are still dangerous. With a missile defense in the U.S., Russia will be more likely to keep its weapons on high alert, knowing that the U.S. can probably shoot down some of its warheads. This scenario increases the chances of an accidental nuclear war. In fact, the leaked document acknowledges that Russian nuclear weapons will remain on high alert...
President Clinton should delay a decision to deploy missile defense and seize the opportunity to achieve deeper arms reductions with Russia...
...Sierra Leone peacekeeping debacle will weigh heavily on the mind of Washington's U.N. ambassador Richard Holbrooke as he meets Thursday with Congolese president Laurent Kabila to discuss plans to deploy a U.N. force in the similarly troubled Congo later this year. "Holbrooke has been warning for some time of the danger of sending in forces that are too small to deal with the scale of the problem and therefore vulnerable to attacks and kidnapping, which appears to be exactly what has happened in Sierra Leone," says Dowell. "But it's no simple matter to expand the peacekeeping force, because...
...those side agreements still have to be ratified by the Senate, and hard-line Republicans there vow to block them, claiming their passage would strengthen the ABM Treaty, which they want to kill, and make it harder to deploy a national missile defense...