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Strategic Arms Reduction Treaties (START)

  • A New START
    Arms Control Today
    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
    Arms Control Today
    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.
  • Peter Crail Discusses U.S. and Russian Nuclear Arsenals
    Arms Control TV
    September 24, 2009

    On September 24th, Peter Crail discussed Russian and American efforts to reduce their nuclear arsenals.
  • Pentagon Defends Planned Arms Cuts
    Arms Control Today
    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”
    Arms Control Today
    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)
  • Moscow Times Editorial: Obama and Medvedev Off to a Good Start
    Documents & Reports
    July 7, 2009

    This week in Moscow, Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev made history agreeing to series of concrete steps that help “reset” U.S.-Russian relations after years of decline. Most important, the two presidents agreed to a framework for a new nuclear arms reduction treaty to replace the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, which will expire in less than five months. Modest as it may be, the START follow-on agreement would also help maintain rough parity in U.S.-Russian strategic nuclear forces in the years ahead and set the stage for deeper reductions in all types of nuclear forces. (Continue)
  • Daryl Kimball Discussing START at Press Conference
    Arms Control TV
    July 6, 2009

    On July 6, 2009, C-Span recorded an ACA press conference where Daryl Kimball and Morton Halperin discussed the Moscow Summit and the START follow-on negotiations.
  • ACA Moscow Summit Press Conference Broadcast Live on C-Span 1
    ACA Events
    July 5, 2009

    (Washington, D.C.): From July 6-8, U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dimitry Medvedev will meet in Moscow. A top goal will be to evaluate and advance progress on the negotiation of a new agreement to replace the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), which is due to expire on December 5. Talks on the follow-on agreement began in April.
  • Background Briefing for Reporters: The START Follow-On Agreement and Beyond
    Press Room
    June 19, 2009

    From July 6-8, U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dimitry Medvedev will meet in Moscow to evaluate and advance progress toward a new strategic nuclear arms reduction treaty that would replace the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), which is due to expire at the end of this year. (Continue)
  • U.S., Russia Continue Talks on START
    Arms Control Today
    June 5, 2009

    U.S. and Russian delegations met in Moscow May 18-20 for the first full-fledged negotiations on a successor to START and said the talks went well.

    A spokesman for the U.S. Department of State called the talks in Moscow "positive" but declined to provide any substantive details on the ongoing negotiations. (Continue)