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US, Russia, agree to cut nuclear weapons by 1/3
Topic Started: Apr 9 2010, 11:07 PM (377 Views)
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Another step toward a nuke-weapon free world?

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PRAGUE - US PRESIDENT Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev signed a new nuclear arms reduction treaty here on Thursday that will cut their arsenals by about one-third.

The successor to the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (Start I) will limit operationally deployed nuclear warheads to 1,550.


Mr Obama said the new nuclear arms treaty is an important milestone for nuclear security and US-Russia relations.

He added that it's just one step on a longer journey, setting the stage for further cuts in the countries' nuclear arsenals.

Moscow and Washington agreed on the treaty after months of tough negotiations bogged down by various disagreements, particularly over US missile defence plans that Russia opposes.

The treaty, which must be approved by the US Senate and the Russian parliament to take effect, is a successor to the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (Start), which expired last December.

The so-called 'new Start' cuts the number of deployed warheads by 30 per cent from the levels set in the last major US-Russian disarmament treaty in 2002, specifying limits of 1,550 nuclear warheads for each of the two countries.
-- REUTERS, AP, AFP


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