opponents, terrorism around the world? we both confront terrorism. all we had to do was look at the bombing in moscow ten days ago, whatever it was, and remember our subways could be bombed, too. they may well be one day. subways in every major capital of the world have been bombed. and realize the only two countries that are absolutely essential in terms of intelligence and reach to learn in advance, for example, about such plots are the united states and russia. now, we re going to be told today as a result, this is the answer to your question, that as a result of this good feeling treaty in prague that we now have such an alliance. the reality is we don t but it s within reach. gigts to require will in washington and the kremlin and to me it s not clear that will exists, at least in washington,
it out. the other possibility is it s not a good treat y it s unstable and it isn t going to add up to a whole lot and may not here s the extraordinary thing. they haven t even published the darn thing. i mean, what are they hiding? there s a lot of talk about whether or not they made a link to missile defense. washington says they haven t. the kremlin said yesterday they have but they won t let us read the document, so we don t know. chuck todd, can you help us out there? oh, i m sorry, mike, were you i walked on mike. mike barnicle, let s go to you first and then mike. i was going to ask steven, do you think the russians have any idea where all their nuclear warheads are? gosh, i hope so. the big ones, obviously, yes. i hope so. do you have one? i mean, are you to. no. the serious answer is about eight years ago, you know, there s something called tactical nuclear weapons, little nuclear weapons, that are used within ranges of about 300 miles. you don t fire them acro
missiles. i look forward to launching a serious dialogue about russian/american cooperation on missile defense. but, nuclear weapons are not simply an issue for the united states and russia. they threaten the common security of all nations. a nuclear weapon in the hands of a terrorist is a danger to people everywhere, moscow to new york. next week 47 nations will come together in washington to discuss con treat steps that can secure all vulnerable nuclear materials around the world in four years and the spread of nuclear weapons to more states is also an unacceptable risk to global security. raising the spectre of arms races from the middle east to east asia. earlier this week the united states formally changed our policy to make it clear that those nuclear weapon states that are in compliance with the nuclear nonproliferation treaty
against the united states? if it s true what you say, joe, that he looks like he s got a chip on his shoulder every time he meets an american leader, it s in sharp contrast to when he meets european leaders. among them, he moves easily, openly, casually, as one would expect the leader of the kremlin to move. now f he has a chip on the shored, it has to do with what happened in russia after the end of the soviet union. whether it s true or not, the russian political elite thinks washington, we, the united states, took advantage of russia s weakness during that decade of the 1990s. you keep saying if, steven. there is. i mean, resentment frames russia s relationship with the united states right now, does it not? it does, but the if doesn t regard to whether they re resentful. the if regards to whether or not we tried to take advantage of them. did washington during the 1990s, this is primarily under clinton,
cornerstone of security policy. but that s going to take some time. and i think each country is going to have to make its own determinings. the key is for the united states and russia to show leadership on this front because we are so far ahead of every nation with respect to possession of nuclear weapons. the primary concerns we identified in recent nuclear posture review, essentially a declaratory statement, a u.s. policy with respect to nuclear weapons, said that our biggest concerns right now are actually the issue of nuclear terrorism and nuclear proliferation. more countries obtaining nuclear weapons, those weapons being less controllable, less secure, nuclear materials flowing around the world, and that will be a major topic of the discussion we have in washington on monday. the united states and russia