The U.S. Senate should reject the new START treaty. It has no upside for the United States, is shot through with flaws, and will limit our defenses.

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The U.S. Senate should reject the new START treaty. It has no upside for the United States, is shot through with flaws, and will limit our defenses. The treaty represents international relations as gesture, and is based on President Obama’s naïve belief that if we are seen as limiting ourselves, other nations will more readily join us in persuading rogue states to abandon their nuclear ambitions.

The treaty is advertised as a 30 percent cut in Russian and American warheads, down to 1,550 on each side. This is spin. Under the 2002 Bush-Putin Treaty of Moscow, Russia and the United States agreed to cut their arsenals to a range of 2,200 to 1,700 warheads each. The new START treaty is a cut of only 150 warheads from the low end of that range, and even this cut is illusory (read on).

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