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Information about every Trident missile the US supplies to Britain will be given to Russia as part of an arms control deal signed by President Barack Obama next week.
Defence analysts claim the agreement risks undermining Britain’s policy of refusing to confirm the exact size of its nuclear arsenal.
The fact that the Americans used British nuclear secrets as a bargaining chip also sheds new light on the so-called “special relationship”, which is shown often to be a one-sided affair by US diplomatic communications obtained by the WikiLeaks website.
Details of the behind-the-scenes talks are contained in more than 1,400 US embassy cables published to date by the Telegraph, including almost 800 sent from the London Embassy, which are published online today. The documents also show that:
WikiLeaks cables: US agrees to tell Russia Britain's nuclear secrets - Telegraph
It's going to take years to recover from the disaster that is Obama.
I have a hard time believing Obama or his staff would jeopardize a 70 year relationship with the U.K., without the U.K.'s knowing it.
A series of classified messages sent to Washington by US negotiators show how information on Britain’s nuclear capability was crucial to securing Russia’s support for the “New START” deal.
Although the treaty was not supposed to have any impact on Britain, the leaked cables show that Russia used the talks to demand more information about the UK’s Trident missiles, which are manufactured and maintained in the US.
Washington lobbied London in 2009 for permission to supply Moscow with detailed data about the performance of UK missiles. The UK refused, but the US agreed to hand over the serial numbers of Trident missiles it transfers to Britain.
I have a hard time believing Obama or his staff would jeopardize a 70 year relationship with the U.K., without the U.K.'s knowing it.
Well well well, seems wikileaks isn't so evil anymore eh?
70 year relationship? i think we've been going around with them in the global playground a lot longer than that.
Well well well, seems wikileaks isn't so evil anymore eh?
Obama should not have authorized giving the Russians ANY information about missiles that do not belong to the US.
However, I'm not really sure what giving them serial numbers will do. So they have a better idea of how many Trident missiles the UK 'might' have. How does that help Russia?
Obama should not have authorized giving the Russians ANY information about missiles that do not belong to the US.
However, I'm not really sure what giving them serial numbers will do. So they have a better idea of how many Trident missiles the UK 'might' have. How does that help Russia?
Knowing how many the enemy has helps you account for them.
Knowing how many the enemy has helps you account for them.
I would argue that accounting for them is a good thing for everyone. It's not like Russia can neutralize the nuclear arsenal of both the UK and the US.
We're past the Cold War, there isn't a threat that any country (except maybe Iran or North Korea) would actually use nuclear weapons. Who cares if they know how many Britain has, it really doesn't matter that much.
And more then that, I agree with Ockham, I'm not going to take this story at face value, I would look to see if we told the British we were going to do this before.
And the First World War would end all wars too.
History can only teach if you bother to listen to her.
Well well well, seems wikileaks isn't so evil anymore eh?
I'd say you should keep posting. You're lack of serious points and flawed logic do more to discredit you then any post by another. Such fatalistically naive comments like yours get's people dead. NOT KNOWING is the great deterrent.
I'll have to wait for the British reaction to weight the cost benefit analysis.
They know all they need to know: There's enough nukes around to end civilization as we know it.
This cold war fetish needs to end. When is the right going to stop looking at Russia as someone we need to defeat?
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