Because that is when a previous treaty known as Start (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) runs out.
During the past year, we made important strides, including the successful NPT (Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons) Review Conference and the signing by the Russian Federation and the United States of a new START (Treaty on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms) treaty.
The USSR professed a willingness to "de-link" completion of a Strategic Arms Reduction (START) Treaty from a new agreement establishing stringent new limitations on SDI.
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President Obama announced last Thusday that he had concluded a follow-on to the 1989 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) with Russia.
This so-called Strategic Arms Reduction (START) follow-on treaty will be ballyhooed as an important step towards the realization of Mr. Obama's goal of a nuclear weapons-free world.
For many years, the USSR demanded that strict numerical limits on the number of American sea-launched cruise missiles be included in the emerging Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
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It will also require the adoption of an ICBM basing configuration that is both militarily effective and, in the event of a Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), verifiable.
At that time, it summarily dropped a longstanding U.S. demand that the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) prohibit all mobile missiles irrespective of whether they bore a single warhead or more than one.
He signed a Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (or START agreement) that cut the permissible number of strategic warheads to a quarter of what had been allowed in the original 1991 START pact.
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He was also instrumental in a second track of talks that led to the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or Start, that called for deep cuts in the number of long-range weapons deployed by each side in the Cold War.
On 8 April, 2010, President Obama and Russian President Medvedev signed the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or "New START, " lowering the limit on deployed strategic nuclear weapons by either nation.
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.
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.
Instead of dealing with present threats from rogue states, President Obama has spent his time negotiating, defending, and pleading for the Start Follow-On agreement, which if ratified will replace the now-expired 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.
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