Obama in Russia amid fading hopes of nuclear arms deal : Medvedev seeks to tie weapons reduction tre

Put up or shut up. Either Obama is for scaling-back arms or he's not. We'll see.

The US has yet to develop a remotely reliable missle defense system. Were it to do so, that alone, nevermind its actual implementation, would be as aggressive a maneuver as lining up scores of warheads on Russia's borders.

Making oneself invulnerable to one's opponent is an utterly aggressive, provocative move. One could be as aggressive as one wanted, while the opponent is helpless. The possibility of that would be more likely to start a large scale, pre-emptive nuclear war than anything. Here's hoping Obama realizes that.

Yes, missile defense systems and Afghanistan pipelines.

@Kellelloway on twitter says "Obama and Medvedev offer to scrap 1000 nuclear warheads each - guardian.co.uk FOXNewsObama and Medvedev offer to scrap .."

...and of course the idea that a missile defense system would make us invulnerable to a nuclear attack is laughable -- even if the defense system was 100% effective. That is, of course, because not all nuclear warheads are ATTACHED or MOUNTED on missiles.

The attacker would have to be more patient, of course, but it could simply -- over time -- ship the necessary components into the U.S. and construct the warheads in the 10 to 20 largest cities in the country. Once they are all in place, the signal to detonate them all simultaneously could be routed quite cheaply and effectively...over the Internet. 50-100 million people would be dead within 24 hours from the blasts or the radioactivity and millions more would die over the ensuing weeks and months.

Meanwhile, our vaunted missile defense system will still just be sitting there, not having fired a single missile in our defense. Do you suppose the Chinese would let us off the hook in terms of repaying them the money we borrowed from them to build the system in that event? Me neither.

If Obama and the administration officials were intent on a world of peace then why in the hell is the US intent of this misile defense system. There can only be one logical reason and as I see it the Russians are smarter than Washington gives them credit for. Also Brzezinski's book "The Grand Chessboard" has been sold world wide so the world knows why the west wants to box Russia in with an electronic wall. Eurasia> As simple as that and Brzezinski has broadcast it world wide like as if to brazenly threaten them or to provoke them. I dont think they are that stupid, I mean the Russians.

You mean he's not going to Michael Jackson's funeral? I can't believe it, they'll be so many cameras, he can pretend to be so sincere, it's the perfect venue for him. What was he thinking?

Sounds like a pretty sweet deal. Oh, wait... we have to give up our nukes and missle defense system?

Ehh... who cares. We can still have a couple of defense shields to blow up a bomb over the atlantic, so who cares? Also, it sounds like this is all just a big game, because nobody really knows how many the other has anyways.

I wonder how much the US could sell some nukes for? 1,000 warheads @ $1,000,000,000 = 1 Trillion dollars. That would pay back TARP stuff or fund healthcare. Tell N. Korea and Iran to get their checkbooks!

I think we should hold the world ransom for 50 trillion dollars and all the jobs or else we will blow up the moon!