START I

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START, officially the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, is a treaty, originally signed by the United States and the Soviet Union, that barred its signatories from deploying more than 6,000 warheads atop a total of 1,600 ICBMs, submarine-launched ballistic missiles, and bombers. Proposed by United States President Ronald Reagan, it was renamed START I after negotiations began on the second START treaty, which became START II. It was signed on July 31, 1991, five months before the collapse of the Soviet Union.

It remains in effect between the U.S. and Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine — the latter three of which since got rid of their nuclear weapons.

[edit] See also

• SALT I
• SALT II
• SORT
• Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty

[edit] External links

• START1 Treaty Hypertext US State Dept.