so the marriage between obama and medvedev is cosier than we think?

[Bosun]

is it true that to get the ruskies to sign the missle treaty, oby sweetened the pie by disclosing secrets about the brits? is he throwing everyone under the bus?

Information about every Trident missile the US supplies to Britain will be given to Russia as part of an arms control deal signed by President Barack Obama next week.

Defence analysts claim the agreement risks undermining Britain’s policy of refusing to confirm the exact size of its nuclear arsenal.

The fact that the Americans used British nuclear secrets as a bargaining chip also sheds new light on the so-called “special relationship”, which is shown often to be a one-sided affair by US diplomatic communications obtained by the WikiLeaks website.

Details of the behind-the-scenes talks are contained in more than 1,400 US embassy cables published to date by the Telegraph, including almost 800 sent from the London Embassy, which are published online today.

Courtesy of UK Telegraph

 

[Bosun]

A little more on the topic.

Washington lobbied London in 2009 for permission to supply Moscow with detailed data about the performance of UK missiles. The UK refused, but the US agreed to hand over the serial numbers of Trident missiles it transfers to Britain.

Professor Malcolm Chalmers said: “This appears to be significant because while the UK has announced how many missiles it possesses, there has been no way for the Russians to verify this. Over time, the unique identifiers will provide them with another data point to gauge the size of the British arsenal.”

Duncan Lennox, editor of Jane’s Strategic Weapons Systems, said: “They want to find out whether Britain has more missiles than we say we have, and having the unique identifiers might help them.”

 

[Bosun]

I personnally question Obama's judgement in throwing those he no longer has use for under the bus.... I know, he looked into Medvedev's eyes and found a friend.....

 

[Right of Neocon]

This has been posted already

 

[theDoctorisIn]

The disclosure of trades was part of the original START I treaty, signed by Daddy Bush.

So if you find fault with this, it's his. Not Obama's.