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This week, Obama made a small step forward and signed a new nuclear pact with Russia.

The pact commits both nations to slash the number of strategic nuclear warheads by one-third,

and more than half the number of missiles, submarines, and bombers that carry them.

Now this might seem to be suddenly happening all too quickly, but don't worry.

This reduction still leaves both countries with enough firepower to ensure mutual destruction

several times over, so that's a huge relief.

I personally wouldn't be able to sleep at night if we were going to go down to just mutual

destruction.

I think it really has to be multiple mutual destructions to have any hope of working

as a deterrent.

But it's true that the main impact of this treaty is not so much what it does as well

as it symbolizes.

It's a big step for the US and Russia to decide to work together rather than both continue

to act like dicks.

That essentially was the choice available to them.

It's not really much more complicated than that.

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