New START | 07 Jun 2019

Russia has said that it will do away with the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).

• Russia has said that the United States “is showing no genuine interest in conducting talks on extending the New START”.
• The treaty sets a limit on the number of nuclear warheads and missiles both countries can keep.
• Recently, the United States has also suspended the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Force Treaty with Russia.
• The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) was signed April 8, 2010, in Prague by Russia and the United States and entered into force on Feb. 5, 2011.
• New START has replaced the 1991 START I treaty, which expired December 2009, and superseded the 2002 Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT), which terminated when New START entered into force.