The two sides were hoping to get a new treaty in place by December 5 the date of START-One's expiration.

VOA: standard.2009.12.07

"The summit will start to discuss basically the deal of who will get this very important position,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.29

"One of the things we need to start doing is to get ahead of the curve by trying to anticipate additional methods that can be used against us and closing the gaps before those gaps are exploited,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.19