Russia added 154 warheads last year as U.S. eliminated 57

Russia added 154 warheads last year as U.S. eliminated 57

Special to WorldTribune.com Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon Russia deployed 153 strategic nuclear warheads over the past year under the New START arms treaty while the U.S. military pared its nuclear forces by 57 warheads, according to State Department figures released last week. The increase in warheads by Moscow appears to be part of Moscow’s […]

Moscow balks at discussing INF treaty violations with U.S.

Moscow balks at discussing INF treaty violations with U.S.

Special to WorldTribune.com Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon Russia is refusing to discuss U.S. charges that Moscow violated the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty by building a cruise missile banned under the accord, according to U.S. officials. Additionally, Moscow in talks held last week accused the United States of INF treaty violations for using target […]

High crimes at the Kremlin: High time for a ‘reset’ on Putin perceptions

High crimes at the Kremlin: High time for a ‘reset’ on Putin perceptions

Special to WorldTribune.com By Mona Charen The bodies of 298 passengers and crew of Malaysia Air Flight 17, 80 of them children, lay unburied in a Ukrainian field while Vladimir Putin’s men fired their weapons into the air to keep international investigators from approaching the site. Yes, “Putin’s men.” Calling them “Russian separatists” unnecessarily dignifies […]

‘No sign of shock or shame’: Where are the conscientious objectors to shooting down a civilian airliner?

‘No sign of shock or shame’: Where are the conscientious objectors to shooting down a civilian airliner?

Special to WorldTribune.com By Dennis Prager When I was a graduate student at Columbia University’s Russian Institute, there was a great debate: Was the communist Soviet Union an organic Russian development or was it largely a cancer imposed on it? Those who held the organic view argued that the change from czar to commissar was […]