The New START Treaty: Central Limits and Key Provisions

Woolf, Amy F.

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

关键词: Foreign policy;    Foreign relations - U.S. - Russia;    Foreign relations - Russia - U.S.;    Defense policy;    Nuclear nonproliferation;   

RP-ID  :  R41219
RP-ID  :  R41219_2012Feb14

美国|英语

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

The United States and Russia signed a new strategic arms reduction treaty - known as New START - on April 8, 2010. This treaty is designed to replace the 1991 Strategic Arms Reductions Treaty (START), which expired, after 15 years of implementation, on December 5, 2009. This report provides an overview of New START, including a comparison to the original START Treaty, the belief of the Obama Administration and outside analysts that New START will enhance U.S. national security, and the criticisms of those who say that New START (and, indeed, the entire issue of U.S.-Russian arms control) is a distraction from more important items on the nonproliferation agenda.