Tagged: START treaty

U.S. Russian sign nuclear-arms treaty

Leaders of the two Cold War adversaries signed a new treaty further reducing their nuclear-arms arsenals.   Both Presidents Obama and Medvedev said the pact will make the world safer and benefit relations between the United States and Russia.  Attorney Philip O’Neill, author of the newly published “Verification in an Age of Insecurity” and who teaches national security […]

Obama redraws nuke policy

President Obama has revamped U.S. nuclear strategy to narrow the conditions under which we would use nuclear weapons, but made it clear that “outliers like Iran and North Korea” still could be potential targets.  BU security law lecturer Philip O’Neill, author of the newly published “Verification in an Age of Insecurity,” says being able to verify […]