NEWSMAX: Fresh off the success of the U.S. Senate’s ratification of the New STrategic Arms Reduction Treaty last week, President Barack Obama and his administration are marshaling an ambitious plan to denuclearize the United States further by banning all nuclear explosions on earth — whether for military or for peaceful purposes. It would be accomplished through the controversial Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, according to a McClatchy Newspapers report.
Republicans in the Senate, however, led by Jon Kyl of Arizona, are girding to block the treaty, invoking the help of five new additional GOP members taking office Jan. 5.
Kyl and other Senate Republicans who tried to kill Obama’s New START, which reduces the size of American and Russian nuclear stockpiles, say the United States can’t risk relinquishing its ability to test nuclear weapons, even though it hasn’t conducted an underground nuclear weapons test in nearly two decades… (more)
