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US, Russia & The New START: Implications for Nuclear Arms Reduction
Lydia Walker and Siddarth Ramana
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US President Barack Obama chose New START – the latest incarnation of the bilateral US/Russia strategic arms control agreement – as a legislative battleground with his Republican adversaries.  After two years of appealing to bipartisanship and attempting to appeal to congressional Republicans, the ratification of New START is the piece of legislation where Obama has made a definitive stand.  Why did he invest so much political capital in New START yet leave it’s ratification up to a lame-duck Senate?  How will stalling – or even killing – the treaty effect the president’s international non-proliferation and disarmament agenda?  At this moment, it is unlikely that the US Senate will ratify the New START treaty.  However, even if future events upset this trend, the difficulties that the Obama administration has with the treaty ratification expose
New START, the latest agreement of Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty signed between the United States and Russia in April 2010 aims to bring down nuclear warheads by nearly two-thirds of the original START treaty. It also limits the number of deployed and non-deployed inter-continental ballistic missile (ICBM) launchers, submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) launchers, and heavy bombers equipped for nuclear armaments, while also encouraging 18 verifiable tests per year

 
 
 
 

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