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Russia and START Nuclear Treaty
March 3 , 2023
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- Russian President Vladimir Putin suspended his country’s participation in the New START nuclear arms reduction treaty with the United States.
- The name START comes from the original “Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty”.
- It is also known as START-I.
- It was signed between the US and the erstwhile USSR in 1991, and came into force in 1994.
- START-I is capped the numbers of nuclear warheads and intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) that each side could deploy at 6,000 and 1,600 respectively.
- The New START was officially entered into force on February 5, 2011.
- The US and Russia Federation subsequently agreed to extend the treaty through February 4, 2026.
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