The U.S.’s relationship with
Russia is about to get even more tense. The latter nation announced
that it’s going to curtail nuclear cooperation with America,
backtracking on the last two decades of security work.
The New York Times
sheds some light:
The message delivered by [Sergey Kirienko, the head
of Russia’s state nuclear company] is the first time that the
rising tensions between the Kremlin and the Obama administration
have threatened to disrupt some of the practical efforts that the
two sides initiated at the end of the Cold War to help Russia
safeguard its nuclear materials.
“There is a real danger that 20 years of U.S.-Russian
cooperation to secure nuclear material …read more
Source: Reason.com
