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Dick Durbin: “Am I right in my premise that this SORT treaty, this Moscow Treaty, does not destroy the nuclear warheads but simply…”

On the recordMarch 5, 2003
Am I right in my premise that this SORT treaty, this Moscow Treaty, does not destroy the nuclear warheads but simply calls for them to be stored, set aside, not in a deployable mode, so they, frankly, are at least within the grasp of either country to be reactivated? Is that accurate?
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Questioning the implications of the SORT treaty during a discussion on nuclear disarmament.

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