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...march 26, President Obama announced that the U.S. and Russia will cut their deployed long-range nuclear arsenals by 30% over seven years. The START Follow-On Treaty, as it is known, is the descendant of a series of Cold War arms-control agreements that had an unlikely progenitor: the spectacular failure of the most ambitious disarmament program ever conceived. The Versailles Treaty of 1919, which was designed to disarm Germany but which failed to prevent World War II, led to a more sober approach to arms control predicated on the belief that conflict is inevitable and a balance...
...Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I) returned to realism, cutting excess nukes while ensuring that the specter of mutually assured destruction would linger long after the Cold War. Last month's modest accord leaves unanswered how arms control might transition into disarmament. No one knows how to get to zero. But any hope of that will depend on realism's giving way to optimism--and the belief that an abundance of thermonuclear weapons isn't the most effective way to stop people from slaughtering one another...
Democrats know keeping control of Congress in November will be a challenge, but they believe that the passage of health care reform gives them a chance to hold their losses to a minimum. Palin doesn't see it that way. "We're taking our country back, and we're starting right here in Nevada," she told the Searchlight crowd, many of whom chanted for her to run for President. For Palin, health care's passage was not the end of a long battle but the start of an entirely new war. And she sounds more than happy to lead...
...convinced that in the long run, society will not accept waste." Drouven says people's awareness about environmental protection will continue to increase as the energy crisis deepens. He adds, "When that happens, we are a company that has already invested in conservation of energy. We have a head start...
This journey started with TIME editor-at-large Josh Quittner's piece in February 2009, which argued that the magazine industry ought to start thinking about how "to provide a new reading experience once the iPod of [e-readers] finally arrives." But that was notional. Once we found out about the launch of the iPad, it became a dash to get ready. We did not get the tech specs from Apple until a little over a month ago, and then scores of people started working together inside the magazine, TIME.com Time Inc. and beyond. (See the top 10 Apple moments...