drawdown

今日は授業とゼミで手一杯！ここのdrawdownはあきらかにPVからの逆成だと思いますが、さてどのように意味でしょうか。午前中見かけなかった栃木のInahoさん、どうぞ。（UG）

NATO nuclear drawdown now seems unlikely

Last summer in Berlin, President Obama called for "bold reductions" in U.S. and Russian tactical nuclear weapons to ease the risk of annihilation in Europe.

Obama was referring to the roughly 200 B61 nuclear bombs that the U.S. has deployed in five NATO nations stretching from the Netherlands to Turkey — as well as an even larger Russian arsenal estimated at 2,000 tactical weapons.

But since last summer, that hopeful outlook has evaporated. Russia's incursions into Ukraine and nuclear threats made by Russian President Vladimir Putin have killed any chance that the U.S. would withdraw its tactical nuclear weapons any time soon.

"Withdrawing our relatively few weapons would be the absolute wrong signal at this moment," said James Stavridis, the retired U.S. admiral who served as NATO chief until 2013 and is now dean of the Fletcher School of international affairs at Tufts University.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-europe-nukes-20140920-story.html#page=1