Abstract

Despite the fact that the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) II has still to be ratified by the Russian Duma, the March 1997 summit in Helsinki between US and Russian Presidents Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin has initiated the process towards a START III agreement. But even more than its predecessors, this arms-reduction agreement – with what is likely to be a highly intrusive verification regime – could face difficulties in gaining legislative approval in both countries. For the first time, a START agreement is likely to cover warheads as well as delivery systems.

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