The United States soon may forfeit the right to watch Soviet military activities from satellites, a hard-won principle wrangled from the Soviet Union in the first Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty a… ...

A simple freeze on these systems would not be a credible, long-term solution since it would lock in an American disparity. ... as was the case with the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty I.

The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, which caps Washington and Moscow’s deployed nuclear weapons at 1,550 each, is set to expire on Feb. 5 unless both sides agree to keep it in force.

The agreement's official name is the treaty between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms, New START.

On April 8, President Obama and Russian President Dmitri Mevedev are scheduled to sign the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) follow-on treaty in Prague.