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Edward Markey: “This does constrain each country to having only 1550 weapons…”

Featuring: Edward Markey, Democratic | U.S. Senate Massachusetts

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Published | Video Starts at 36:45

When you're talking about extending the current framework and then envisioning and renegotiated, what. Exactly would you want that to look like? What you want to apply to? Okay, well, again, This does constrain each country to having only 1550 weapons that are deployed that can be used in a military context against the other country. The other weapons are not in that context. So I would let one of our experts get up and talk about what that new context should look like. (36:45–36:57)

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Asserts that the current nuclear agreement limits each country to 1,550 deployable weapons.

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