New START – “START” is shorthand for “Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty” – is the last in a long series of nuclear treaties between the US and Russia, previously the Soviet Union.

The State Department informed Congress this week in its New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or New START, Implementation Report that it can’t certify that Russia is in compliance with the ...

President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia was suspending participation in the New START nuclear arms reduction treaty with the United States, after accusing the West of being directly ...

The short-form name, which is not really a true acronym, is instead a reference to START 1, or the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, was in effect from 1991 to 2009, and which New START replaced in ...

New START is a nuclear arms reduction treaty between the US and Russia, signed on April 8, 2010, in Prague by Presidents Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama, further ratified by both countries and ...

The US State Department’s fact sheet, “U.S. Countermeasures in Response to Russia’s Violations of the New START Treaty,” released on June 1, 2023, describes four countermeasures that the United States ...

On February 4, 2026, the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), the last legally binding arms control agreement on strategic nuclear warheads, will expire, ushering in a theoretically ...

For decades, Australia sat on the sidelines of global arms control. Now, amidst a word rapidly re-arming, it’s stepping ...

The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, commonly known as New START, is an agreement between the U.S. and Russia that sets limits on strategic arms.

The meeting and the treaty represent "our commitment to risk reduction, to strategic stability, something we remain committed to, something that is profoundly in the bilateral interest, and we ...

The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty limits the number of strategic nuclear weapons that the two countries can stockpile and deploy. It is due to run out on February 5, 2026.