As a result, the START II Treaty was brought up just before Christmas for perfunctory consideration.
De-alerting the Start II missiles and others would be only a first step.
Start II would have reduced each side's nuclear warheads to about 3, 000 each.
But the defense asymmetry becomes more important as the number of strategic weapons is reduced below START II objectives.
It is most regrettable that President-elect Bill Clinton has encouraged Mr. Bush to wrap up START II before the inauguration.
The officials expressed hope that the Russian parliament would ratify START II this spring, which has already gained approval in the U.S. Senate.
Defence analysts in Moscow say the Start II treaty has been dead in the water for some time and that Russia's announcement is a mere formality.
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.
The START II treaty and the framework we have already agreed to for START III could cut them by 80 percent from their Cold War height.
Both sides agreed to speed up cutbacks in strategic nuclear weapons if the Russian parliament finally ratifies START II, the nuclear arms reduction treaty signed in 1993.
Were the Senate to approve START II under these circumstances, we would inevitably be party to the creation of new obstacles to the deployment of American missile defenses.
What is more, Putin has asserted that Russia will not implement the START II Treaty at all unless and until the U.S. ratifies what the Duma has just done.
In the negotiating end-game on START II, however, the United States agreed to such inspections in connection with new limitations governing the accountability of long-range bombers as nuclear delivery systems.
The Russian leadership has been pushing for a summit, and with recent legislative battles over Kiriyenko and economic reform, including an austerity budget, ratifying START II is unlikely anytime soon.
" 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.
Matters are made worse by the Clinton Administration's evident determination to accede to the Russian position that implementation of the START II treaty is linked to perpetual U.S. adherence to the ABM Treaty.
The White House had tried to link any summit to the Duma's ratification of the START II treaty, saying only then would the two leaders be able to go forward in negotiating further arms control treaties.
Last night, the Senate ratified the START II treaty, which, when Russia ratifies it, will enable us to make continued dramatic reductions of our nuclear arsenal and remove further the nuclear cloud from our children's future.
Aboard Air Force One on the flight from Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington, senior administration officials said Clinton would move beyond the NATO question and propose additional arms control agreements, going beyond the START II Treaty.
When urging the parliament to ratify Start II on Friday he warned that Russia would withdraw from all arms control agreements if the US went ahead with the missile defence programme, thereby breaking the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
Russian ratification of START II.
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Second, the START I and II verification measures are predicated on elaborate and artificial counting rules.
This event marks the end of Phase I of the UNESCO-IHP ISARM Project (2000-2010) and the start of Phase II.
However in 12 years, when millions of babies born after World War II start turning 65 and become eligible for the program, that ratio will drop sharply.
At the start of World War II, after war was declared, very little happened for half a year.
And 90-year-old Victor Borge left his native Denmark at the start of World War II and arrived in New York in 1940 not knowing a word of English.
In fact, even though they were forced to sell their family-named company off before the start of World War II, after the guns stopped firing they found themselves missing the smell of burnt rubber and racetracks.
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