Second, the START I and II verification measures are predicated on elaborate and artificial counting rules.
"I think at the start I didn't do a good enough job of pressuring him, " Wood said.
The Conventional Forces in Europe and START I treaties and the Chemical Weapons Convention are cases in point.
Under the 1991 START I Treaty, each side was limited to 1, 600 launchers.
For example, under START I the U.S. has nine different types of warheads.
Also, under discussion is the START I nuclear weapons pact, the last strategic arms treaty in place between Moscow and Washington.
Initially, the Obama administration's negotiators confidently predicted they would have START I's successor negotiated in ample time to avoid a verification gap.
As it happens, Moscow is actively marketing its SS-25 ICBM as a "START I space launch vehicle, " complete with its standard-issue mobile transporter-erector-launcher.
Fast forward to 1991, when the START I treaty was signed and the Soviet Union was effectively bankrupt as a result of its nuclear-weapons binging.
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One significant violation has even been discussed openly in Russian publications -- the testing of the SS-27 ICBM with MIRVs in direct violation of START I.
Doing so, they argue, would in turn prompt Russia to refuse to ratify the START II Treaty and to withdraw from the earlier START I accord.
Russia may well reject this proposal, because START I's verification measures are far more robust than those in New START (itself a main weakness of the new treaty).
The meeting will be chaired by Ambassador Max Kampelman, President Reagan's highly respected chief negotiator in the U.S.-Soviet START I talks, and sponsored by the National Institute for Public Policy.
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Rejecting Linkage: In signing the START I and II Treaties, the Reagan and Bush administrations, respectively, explicitly rejected Russian efforts to link them to continued U.S. adherence to the ABM Treaty.
" Specifically, they are "focusing on how to apply verification measures included in the earlier START I and START II arms control treaties to the new limits proposed for offensive weapons.
The cumulative effect of these and other constraints imposed by START I and START II will be to degrade significantly the deterrent value of the air-breathing leg of the U.S. strategic triad.
They argue that the absence of inspections since START I expired on Dec. 5, 2009, is creating holes in U.S. information on Russia that could give Moscow significant advantages over us in coming years.
In short, the Bush Administration has rushed into a second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty which like START I affords the former Soviet Union militarily significant loopholes, ominous breakout potential and undesirable circumvention options.
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In addition, Russia continues to violate its international arms control obligations, including -- but not limited to -- the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty, the INF Treaty, the START I Treaty, the Biological Weapons Convention and various chemical weapons conventions.
Thus, it was the Obama administration that failed to meet its own deadline for achieving a new arms-control treaty with Russia, the Obama administration that decided not to extend START I and the Obama administration that did not obtain a verification bridging agreement.
It will be a little different than the START I verification system, but it is more than adequate to make sure that we know what they are doing and they know what we are doing, and it has been so identified as being adequate by our intelligence community.
On the most immediate challenge, working out an arms control agreement to replace the START I treaty which expires December 5, the two presidents signed a joint understanding for a follow-on agreement to START that commits both parties to a legally binding treaty that will reduce nuclear weapons.
"I was nervous up until I went out of the start ... but when I got in the start, I felt alive and ready to race, " she added.
So I think about my one Congress, then I start thinking about 17 congresses and I start getting a little bit of a headache.
Before I start, I just want to acknowledge an outstanding member of Congress who is fighting every day on behalf of the people of his district -- Dave Loebsack is here.
Before I start, I just want to introduce the folks on stage here, because the extraordinary work that they did is the reason that a lot of families are going to be helped all across the country.
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And I want to just -- before I start, I know that I have been spending a great deal of time in the front row in particular, but the front two rows, so I really want to try to move to give other people a chance to get their questions in today.
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