U.S., Russia Working to Replace START

The United States and Russia are moving to replace the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty now set to expire in December 2009, a Russian nuclear expert said yesterday (see GSN, Sept. 4).

“Russia initiated the process, and serious work has been ongoing to develop new approaches in this sphere, so far on the level of experts," said Sergei Khudoklinov,” head of Russia’s National Center for Nuclear Threat Reduction.

The sides must still address several disputes over the agreement, Khudoklinov said, but “there is still time, and with political will, many problems could be resolved.”

The treaty restricts the arsenals of the former Cold War rivals to deploying no more than 6,000 nuclear warheads and a maximum of 1,600 delivery vehicles each (RIA Novosti, Dec. 12).

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