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Strategic Arms Reduction Treaties (START)

  • New START Verification: Fitting the Means to the Ends
    February 22, 2010

    New Threat Assessment Brief from ACA Senior Fellow Greg Thielmann
  • START Stalls; Talks Continue
    January 14, 2010

    Despite repeated pledges by their leaders and other top officials to finish “before the end of the year,” Russia and the United States failed to meet their self-imposed deadline for completing a successor to START. But President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev pledged to keep talking and predicted near-term success. “I’m confident that [the new treaty] will be completed in a timely fashion,” Obama said in public remarks after a Dec. 18 meeting with Medvedev in Copenhagen. Medvedev replied, “I hope that we will be able to do it in a quite brief period of time.” No new deadline was set, although talks are expected to resume in Geneva in mid-January, according to the Department of State.
  • Event Transcript: START Follow-On Treaty: Assessing Progress on Nuclear Risk Reduction
    December 9, 2009

    Panelists: Linton Brooks, Steven Pifer, and Daryl Kimball
  • U.S.-Soviet/Russian Nuclear Arms Control Agreements at a Glance
    December 6, 2009
    Fact Sheet, December 2009
  • U.S., Russia Poised for Arsenal Cuts
    December 4, 2009
  • CEIP Proliferation Analysis: Don't Stop with START
    December 3, 2009

    Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Proliferation Analysis
  • A New START
    December 2, 2009

    After eight rounds of talks over nine months, U.S. and Russian negotiators are expected to complete work this month on a new strategic nuclear arms reduction deal that would replace the highly successful 1991 START, which expires Dec. 5.

    Lower, verifiable limits on still-bloated U.S. and Russian strategic nuclear arsenals are long overdue. Today, the United States and Russia each deploy more than 2,000 strategic warheads, most of which exist only to deter a massive nuclear attack by the other. No other country possesses more than 300 nuclear warheads, and China currently has fewer than 30 nuclear-armed missiles capable of striking the continental United States. (Continue)
  • START Deadline Looms; Endgame Begins
    November 5, 2009

    One month away from START’s Dec. 5 expiration date, it is unclear that a replacement treaty will be ready for signature by that time, comments by administration officials and nongovernmental observers suggest.
  • Pentagon Defends Planned Arms Cuts
    September 4, 2009

    Responding to criticism that the START follow-on treaty, or New START, should wait until the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) is completed early next year, the Pentagon announced in August that the U.S. negotiating positions for New START had been cleared by the NPR interagency process. (Continue)
  • Administration Pushes to Finish “New START”
    September 4, 2009

    U.S. and Russian negotiators are set to meet this month as part of an effort to wrap up negotiations by December on a new strategic arms reduction treaty with Russia, administration officials said recently. (Continue)

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