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WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. official says a treaty expected to be sealed with Russia within hours would cut by 25 percent the number of deployed nuclear weapons.

The official says the agreement would limit each side to 700 armed launchers — such as missiles, bombers or submarines — that are ready to be fired.

President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev are expected to finalize the agreement in a phone conversation Friday morning.

The agreement would also limit both sides to 1,550 nuclear warheads — a further reduction from previously planned cuts.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak ahead of the announcement.

The official said the U.S. prevailed in keeping missile defense limitations out of the treaty.

We should never drastically reduce our weapons for those commie bastards. Way to go Mr. Hussein Obama.

lol @ commie bastards,,, I wonder if the south would still refer to me as a yankee,,,,

Yes they would...I get called that all of the time. The funny thing is that when I first moved here I thought they were just messing with me, turns out they mean it....

haa, dont feel bad , I heard some of that from the BRITS when I was there too...except to some of them I was a 'yank' not a 'yankee'...lol

Yeah, right, the world will never be safe until every household in the U.S. has their own personal supply of thermonuclear weapons.

Actually way to go Secretary of State Clinton.

Obama had about as much to do with this as a kid does with making the candy they eat.

It is a good treaty.

Better than the last one.

Not as good as the next one will be.

and general peace will result.

Perhaps we should have elected Mrs. Clinton to the Presidency.

Then I might still have my Freedom of Choice.

All it takes is one missile. This treaty is a joke.

You can call it progress or a step in the right direction, but the endgame is still the same. ALL nukes need to be destroyed, every last one on this planet.

yes they would

i have been called a yankee multiple times since i have been in the south this time and other times in the past