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US President Barack Obama on Tuesday said the nuclear deal with Iran would "stop the spread of nuclear weapons" in the region and showed the United States still had a position of strength to bring about "real and meaning change".
The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START Treaty), imposes limits on Russian and US intercontinental missiles and bombers, but does not cover new types of weapons.
Igor Shepherd is the Readiness and Countermeasures Program Manager for Wyoming's State Health Department. And according to Business Insider, he voiced a rather unorthodox opinion at a nearly ninety-minute talk he gave on November 10th. In it, Shepherd described vaccines as biological weapons and a plot by Russia and China to spread communism worldwide. He made the comments at a November 10 event held by the Keep Colorado Free and Open group, which advocates for constitutional rights amid the pandemic. The plan of destruction right now is going at full speed. Igor Shepherd, Readiness and Countermeasures Program Manager State of Wyoming Shepherd's baseless claims undermine efforts to limit COVID-19's spread and distribute a vaccine. It also props up unscientific 'anti-vaxxer' claims. Johns Hopkins University reports there have been 278,996 US COVID-19 deaths and a 12.5% case rise in Wyoming this week. Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon has called those who won't take the pandemic seriously 'knuckleheads.'
Hillary Clinton is mired in controversy even before announcing she will run on the Democratic ticket. We look at US press reaction to "Email-gate". Also, Garry Kasparov lashes out at Vladimir Putin in The Guardian, saying "fair play" isn't the way to go. The Kiev Post echoes that, describing him a nuclear-armed crazy man. The Economist, meanwhile, warns we are entering a new nuclear age. And NASA says there are traces of an ancient ocean on Mars.
President Vladimir Putin on Thursday signed a bill revoking Russia's ratification of a global nuclear test ban, a move that Moscow said was needed to establish parity with the United States.