Tuesday, February 05, 2008

Cold War deja vu!

One wonders, why did the world undergo the trial & tribulations associated with the Cold War nuclear politics? The question gains added salience especially when one sees the West & Russia walking the beaten tracksCold War & once again entering into a dangerous missile race.

The recent withdrawal of Russia from its obligations under the conventional forces in Europe (CFE) treaty certainly doesn’t portend well, either for global peace or for the continent (Europe), which has presumably bid good bye to war as an instrument of state policy. The treaty came into being in 1992 (the collapse of Communism saw a revised treaty, CFE II enacted in 1999) as a confidence building measure between NATO & former Warsaw pact nations to reduce the deployment of conventional forces between the Atlantic Ocean and the Urals.


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Source: IIPM Editorial, 2008

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