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To: bestintxas

Have any of the Start Treaties ever been ratified?? I don’t think so....


4 posted on 07/07/2009 5:50:26 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau
Have any of the Start Treaties ever been ratified?? I don’t think so....

The Treaty on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (START I) between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) and the United States (U.S.) was signed in Moscow on July 31, 1991 at a summit meeting between Soviet and U.S. presidents, Mikhail Gorbachev and George Bush, and entered into force on December 5, 1994. It was the first agreement of this kind between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. The purpose of the Treaty was to ensure parity between the two sides’ strategic nuclear forces at levels 30% down on initially deployed forces.

The Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty - known as the SORT or Moscow Treaty - was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President George W. Bush in Moscow on May 24, 2003. It specifies the reduction of operationally-deployed strategic nuclear warheads to a range of 2,200-1,700 per side by 2012. The Treaty was approved by the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee on February 5, and by the full Senate on March 6 by a vote of 95 to 0. Two proposed amendments to the adoption resolution were defeated: the first, requiring Senate approval of any US decision to withdraw from the treaty, by 50 votes to 44; the second, requiring annual reports to the Senate on treaty compliance, by 50 votes to 45.

31 posted on 07/07/2009 6:28:57 AM PDT by kabar
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