Yang
tidak bersenjata Minuteman III antara benua peluru berpandu balistik
dilancarkan dari Pangkalan Tentera Udara Vandenberg, California (An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental
ballistic missile launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California). © Ian
Dudley/U.S. Air Force photo/Reuters
nUSANTARa - Presiden
Amerika Syarikat, Barack Obama sedang mempertimbangkan menawarkan Rusia peluang
untuk melanjutkan START perjanjian baru mengenai penggunaan senjata nuklear.
Dia mahu memastikan perjanjian itu berpanjangan supaya pentadbiran penggantinya
tidak boleh berpotensi membatalkannya.
Perjanjian
‘The New START’ yang ditandatangani pada April 2010 di Prague dan berkuat kuasa
10 bulan kemudian, tidak akan tamat sehingga Februari 2021. Perjanjian itu
menyatakan bahawa musuh Perang Dingin, Rusia dan Amerika Syarikat, perlu
mengurangkan senjata nuklear strategik mereka untuk 1550 setiap belah menjelang
2018.
Outgoing
Obama wants extension of Russia nuclear treaty to thwart future changes -
report
US
President Barack Obama is considering offering Russia the chance to extend the
New START treaty regarding the deployment of nuclear weapons. He wants to make
sure the pact is prolonged so his successor’s administration cannot potentially
cancel it.
The New
START treaty, which was signed in April 2010 in Prague and came into effect 10
months later, is not due to expire until February 2021. The pact states that
the Cold War foes, Russia and the US, must reduce their strategic nuclear
weapons to 1,550 per side by 2018.
Putin: 'Kita tahu apabila Amerika Syarikat akan
mendapatkan #missile baru mengancam keupayaan #nuclear Rusia' (Putin: ‘We know when US will get new #missile threatening
Russia’s #nuclear capability)’ http://on.rt.com/7fzl
Walau
bagaimanapun, Obama dilaporkan mahu menawarkan Moscow peluang untuk melanjutkan
perjanjian 5 tahun lagi, sedar hakikat bahawa pentadbiran yang akan
menggantikan beliau mungkin mahu meninggalkan pakatan itu, lapor Washington
Post.
"Seperti
yang kita memasuki bahagian terakhir presiden Obama, ia adalah bernilai
mengingati bahawa dia datang ke pejabat dengan komitmen peribadi untuk mengejar
diplomasi dan kawalan senjata," kata Timbalan Penasihat Keselamatan
Negara, Ben Rhodes kepada Persatuan Kawalan Senjata pada 6 Jun, seperti yang
dipetik oleh akhbar.
"Saya
boleh berjanji kepada anda hari ini bahawa Presiden Obama terus mengkaji
beberapa cara dia boleh memajukan agenda Prague sepanjang 7 bulan akan datang.
Secara ringkasnya, kerja kita belum selesai isu-isu ini, "katanya.
However,
Obama reportedly wants to offer Moscow the chance to extend the treaty by
another five years, conscious of the fact that the administration that will
succeed him may want to abandon the pact, the Washington Post reports.
“As we enter the homestretch of the Obama
presidency, it’s worth remembering that he came into office with a personal
commitment to pursuing diplomacy and arms control,” deputy national security adviser Ben
Rhodes told the Arms Control Association on June 6, as cited by the
newspaper.
“I can promise you today that President Obama is
continuing to review a number of ways he can advance the Prague agenda over the
course of the next seven months. Put simply, our work is not finished on these
issues,” he
added.
Baca
lebih lanjut: janji nuke pahit: Nobel Keamanan Nobel Obama menghabiskan
berbilion-bilion di Amerika Syarikat senjata nuclear (Read more): Bitter nuke promises: Nobel Peace laureate Obama spending
billions on US nuclear arsenal
Pentadbiran
Obama juga telah menyatakan bahawa ia mahu mengambil langkah-langkah untuk
memastikan bahawa senjata nuklear Amerika Syarikat tidak dimodenkan dalam
jangka masa panjang, yang kosnya kira-kira $355 billion sehingga sekitar 2023,
seorang tokoh yang akhirnya boleh melonjak kepada lebih $ 1 trilion.
Ini
adalah sebahagian dari U-turn untuk Presiden Amerika Syarikat, yang pentadbiran
pada 2014 memberitahu Pentagon ia diperlukan untuk mengetepikan wang untuk 12
kapal selam peluru berpandu baru, sehingga 100 pengebom baru dan 400 peluru
berpandu darat, yang boleh sama ada dibina dari awal, atau membaik pulih model
sedia ada.
Kenyataan
tentang memerlukan untuk menaik taraf senjata nuklear Amerika Syarikat juga
bercanggah ucapan beliau dibuat pada bulan April 2009, di mana Obama
menggariskan impiannya untuk planet yang bebas daripada senjata nuklear dalam
satu ucapan di Prague.
"Kita
mesti bersatu untuk hak rakyat di mana-mana untuk hidup bebas daripada rasa
takut dalam abad ke-21," kata Obama pada masa itu. "Sebagai sebuah
kuasa nuklear, sebagai satu-satunya kuasa nuklear telah menggunakan senjata
nuklear, Amerika Syarikat mempunyai tanggungjawab moral untuk bertindak. Kita
tidak boleh berjaya dalam usaha ini sahaja, tetapi kita boleh membawa ia; kita
boleh memulakannya."
Lebih 7
tahun sejak membuat ucapan di Prague, nampaknya seperti Obama sekali lagi
komited untuk melaksanakan apa yang dia katakan, walaupun pembangkang yang
dihadapinya di Kongres dan Senat.
"Ia
cukup jelas agenda Prague telah terhenti," Joe Cirincione, presiden
Kumpulan Wang Ploughshares, yang menyokong kumpulan Membela penularan nuklear,
memberitahu Washington Post. "Tidak ada apa-apa yang presiden adakah itu
tidak dikritik oleh pihak lawan, jadi dia juga mungkin melakukan apa yang dia
mahu. Dia teruja hari-hari terakhirnya di pejabatnya."
Obama’s
administration has also stated that it wants to take steps to make sure that
the US’ nuclear arsenal is not modernized in the long term, which would cost
about $355 billion until around 2023, a figure that could eventually balloon to
over $1 trillion.
This
was somewhat of a U-turn for the US president, whose administration in 2014
told the Pentagon it needed to set aside money for 12 new missile submarines,
up to 100 new bombers and 400 land-based missiles, which can either be built
from scratch, or refurbish existing models.
The
statement about needing to upgrade the US nuclear arsenal also contradicted a
speech he made in April 2009, in which Obama outlined his dream of a planet
free from nuclear weapons in a speech in Prague.
“We
must stand together for the right of people everywhere to live free from fear
in the 21st century,” Obama said at the time. “As a nuclear power, as the only
nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon, the United States has a moral
responsibility to act. We cannot succeed in this endeavor alone, but we can
lead it; we can start it.”
Over
seven years since making that speech in Prague, it seems as though Obama is
once again committed to implementing what he said, despite opposition that he
is facing in Congress and the Senate.
“It’s
pretty clear the Prague agenda has stalled,” Joe Cirincione, president of the
Ploughshares Fund, which supports groups advocating for nuclear
nonproliferation, told the Washington Post. “There isn’t anything that the
president does that isn’t criticized by his opponents, so he might as well do
what he wants. He’s relishing his last days in office.”
NATO-Russia #nuclear war
‘possible within a year’ – ex-NATO chief (NATO-Rusia # perang nuclear 'mungkin dalam tempoh setahun' - ex Ketua NATO)
http://on.rt.com/7czg
Menunjukkan
apa pertempuran Obama menghadapi, dalam Jun yang 2 terkemuka Republikan
menggesa Obama untuk melekat dengan rancangan pemodenan nuklear.
Memetik
komen yang dibuat oleh Rhodes pada 6 Jun, Senat Angkatan Bersenjata Chair John
McCain dan Senat Hubungan Luar Chair Bob Corker berkata bahawa presiden terikat
dengan komitmen beliau dibuat dalam Kongres.
"Kita
bimbang Mr. Rhodes 'komen boleh pertanda usaha, seperti khabar angin' panel
Blue Ribbon', untuk mengkaji semula program pemodenan yang anda berjanji untuk
membiayai selama yang anda adalah presiden, yang jelas bercanggah janji
peribadi kepada Senat dan keperluan ketenteraan, "Corker dan McCain
menulis dalam surat yang dikeluarkan pada 17 Jun, menurut ‘News Pertahanan’.
Showing
just what a battle Obama faces, in June two leading Republican urged Obama to
stick with the nuclear modernization plans.
Citing
comments made by Rhodes on June 6, the Senate Armed Services Chair John McCain
and Senate Foreign Relations Chair Bob Corker said that the president is bound
by commitments he made in Congress.
“We are
concerned Mr. Rhodes' comments may presage efforts, such as a rumored ‘Blue
Ribbon’ panel, to review the modernization program you promised to fund for as
long as you are president, which would obviously contradict your personal
promise to the Senate and military necessity,” Corker and McCain wrote in a
letter released on June 17, according to Defense News.
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