Signed by Presidents Obama and Medvedev on April 8, 2010, New START replaces the 1991 START treaty limiting U.S. and Russian strategic nuclear weapon systems. The agreement introduces lower ceilings for the numbers of deployed warheads and delivery systems, and continues many of the necessary verification procedures. New START entered into force on February 5, 2011.
- Treaty text (U.S. State Department)
- For associated Protocol, Annexes, Unilateral Statements, and latest reports on aggregate numbers of Strategic Offensive Arms for both parties, visit this page on the State Department’s website.
The New START Treaty entered into force on February 5, 2011.
Further Reading
- New START Treaty Fifth Anniversary, United States Department of State, 5 February 2016
- The New START Treaty and Russia’s nuclear surge, Keith Payne and Mark Schneider, The Washington Times, 21 October 2015
- Why Putin’s ICBM Announcement Does Not Signal a New Nuclear Arms Race, Adam Mount, Council on Foreign Relations, 25 June 2015
- New START Treaty Count: Russia Drops Below US Again, Hans M. Kristensen, Federation of American Scientists, 2 April 2015
- New START treaty: central limits and key provisions, Amy F. Woolf, Congressional Research Service, 4 February 2015
- New START: Russia and the United States Increase Deployed Nuclear Arsenals, Hans M. Kristensen, Federation of American Scientists, 2 October 2014
- Obama calls for deeper nuclear cuts, Arms Control Association, 2 July 2013
- Looking beyond the U.S. – Russia stalemate, Rebecca Cousins, BASIC This Week, 12 August 2013
- What comes next for U.S. nuclear policy?, Rebecca Cousins,BASIC This Week, 17 June 2013
- Pentagon Expects to Meet New START Demands, Global Security Newswire, 10 May 2013
- Time for Kerry to Face Facts, Robert Joseph and Eric Edelman, Foreign Policy, 6 May 2013
- New START Treaty Aggregate Numbers of Strategic Offensive Arms, U.S State Department, 3 April 2013
- SORT vs. New START: Why the Administration is Leary of a Treaty, Steven Pifer, Brookings, 15 March 2013
- A New START Model for Transparency in Nuclear Disarmament, Tammara Patton, Pavel Podvig, and Phillip Schell, UNIDR, 2013
- U.S Remains Above New START Limits, Tom Z. Collina, Arms Control Association, 29 November 2012
- Will Russia stop New Start (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty)?, Yevgeny Shestakov, Telegraph, December 20, 2012
- American Nuclear Primacy: The End of MAD or a New START?, Centre for Strategic and International Studies, David J. Elkind, 22 May 2012
- New START, American Security Project (Resources on the New START treaty)
- A New Start with Old Strategies: U.S. Nuclear Policy in the 21st Century, Nicol Spann, APSA 2012 Annual Meeting Paper, 16 July 2012
- New START: One year later, Kingston Reif, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 2 February 2012
- Russia completes ratification process, 28 January 2011.