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New START treaty signed

by Ceasefire.ca April 8, 2010April 8, 2010
Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev sign the New START treaty in Prague
U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev sign the "New START" treaty in Prague on 8 April

The United States and Russia signed the “New START” strategic nuclear arms reduction treaty today in Prague (Peter Baker, “Russia and U.S. Sign Nuclear Arms Reduction Pact,” New York Times, 8 April 2010).

  • Text of treaty (17 pages)
  • Treaty protocol (165 pages)
  • Ceasefire.ca comments on the treaty (bottom line: a modest, but still important, step forward)
Barack ObamaDimitri MedvedevNew START treatyNuclear disarmamentNuclear weapons
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