a friends asks:
>Do you know someone on staff at UTC who could shed some light on this
>assumption that treaties with the USSR were applied to the individual
>republics as opposed to the entire union?
>
>With the dissolution of the USSR, do US treaties apply to individual
>republics or would they need to be re-negotiated?

...

>I guess you can see what brought this up. The ABM treaty that Bush is
>wanting to modify or do away with was signed between the US and the USSR.
>China never signed the treaty, nor did any other country that has recently
>gained the ability to build ICBMs. Is there a treaty left to modify or
>break?

anybody?

(ya byl russkii perevodchik v SSHA armade 20 letom tomu nazad,
 no seichas ne znayu nichego.)

;>