Clinton did this too, Obama is saying. Perhaps this is just the same old thing- and Bush may have done it too. Why is this in breaking?
Bush Continues Emergency Relating to Fissile Material in Russia
(June 19: Presidential message and notice to Congress) (950)
In a message to Congress June 18, President Bush enclosed a notice
stating that “the emergency declared with respect to the accumulation
of a large volume of weapons-usable fissile material in the territory
of the Russian Federation is to continue beyond June 21, 2002.”
That is the anniversary date of the executive order in 2000 that
declared a national emergency to deal with the threat of nuclear
proliferation created by the accumulation of weapons-usable fissile
material in the Russian Federation.
The executive order blocks the “property of the government of the
Russian Federation relating to the disposition of highly enriched
uranium extracted from nuclear weapons.”