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  • Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces Under New START
    Fact Sheets & Briefs
    April 4, 2013

    April 2013
  • U.S. Strategic Nuclear Forces Under New START
    Fact Sheets & Briefs
    April 4, 2013

    April 2013
  • Threats to Block Russian-U.S. Nuclear Cuts Are Ill-Founded
    Issue Briefs
    March 7, 2013

    In his State of the Union Address, President Barack Obama reiterated that the United States will continue to seek to reduce the size of the still-bloated U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals. Obama said the United States would "engage Russia to seek further reductions in our nuclear arsenals."
  • Obama’s Second Chance
    Arms Control Today
    January 14, 2013

    In a dramatic speech in Prague less than 100 days after his 2009 inauguration, President Barack Obama warned that “the threat of global nuclear war has gone down, but the risk of a nuclear attack has gone up. More nations have acquired these weapons. Testing has continued. The technology to build a bomb has spread.”
  • Defuse the Exploding Costs of Nuclear Weapons
    Arms Control Today
    November 29, 2012

    If Congress and the White House are serious about reducing the growing federal deficit, they must seize the opportunity to scale back costly schemes for building a new generation of strategic nuclear delivery systems and rebuilding tactical nuclear bombs.
  • U.S. Remains Above New START Limits
    Arms Control Today
    November 2, 2012

    The latest data exchange under the 2010 New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty indicates gradual progress in U.S. reductions and a large numerical gap between U.S. and Russian forces.
  • Russia to Field New Heavy Missile by 2018
    Arms Control Today
    October 2, 2012

    As part of its declared effort to respond to U.S.-NATO plans to field missile interceptors in eastern Europe by 2020, Russia said in September that it would deploy a new “heavy” intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in 2018.
  • Key Senator May Oppose New Treaties
    Arms Control Today
    July 5, 2012

    A key Republican senator who voted for the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) threatened to block future treaties, citing what he said was the failure of the Obama administration to keep its promise, made in talks with the Senate over New START in 2010, to increase funding for nuclear weapons programs.
  • Don't Hold New START Hostage to Budget Battles
    Issue Briefs
    May 16, 2012

    Volume 3, Issue 8, May 16, 2012

    This week, the House of Representatives will debate and vote on the annual defense authorization bill, which in its current form would hold up implementation of the 2010 New START Treaty unless Congress increases spending on nuclear weapons activities that the Pentagon did not request and does not want.
  • Russia Back Below Treaty’s Warhead Limits
    Arms Control Today
    May 2, 2012

    Russia is back under the nuclear warhead limit of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), according to the third data exchange with the United States under the treaty.