New START Accord Enters Service
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The new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) came into effect over the weekend as US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov exchanged ratification instruments on the 5th of February at the Munich Security Conference.
The ratification of the new treaty, which limits the number of warheads each nation can deploy, replaced a previous agreement which expired in late 2009. Starting in April 2010 with an exchange of signatures between presidents Me...
