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Stephen Schwartz

OTD 35 yrs ago, Presidents George H.W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev signed the START I agreement, limiting the United States and the Soviet Union to 1,600 deployed ICBMs, SLBMs, and bombers and 6,000 “accountable” strategic warheads. It entered into force on December 5, 1994, expiring 15 years later.

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Stephen Schwartz

START I was the first strategic arms control treaty to require both the reduction and verified elimination of strategic nuclear delivery vehicles (instead of only placing an upper limit on how many each side could have). But the counting rules allowed each to possess more than 6,000 total warheads.

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Stephen Schwartz

On May 23, 1992, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan signed the Lisbon Protocol, making them states parties to the treaty following the formal dissolution of the Soviet Union on December 26, 1991.

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Stephen Schwartz

Today, the United States and Russia deploy 745 and 595 ICBMs, SLBMs, and long-range bombers, respectively, which carry ~1,670 and ~1,796 strategic nuclear weapons, respectively. Belarus, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan no longer possess any of the nuclear weapons they inherited after the USSR collapsed.

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Stephen Schwartz

New START, which replaced START I in 2011 and required even deeper cuts, was the last remaining bilateral treaty putting any legal and verifiable constraints on the US and Russian nuclear arsenals, expired on February 5, 2026.

Stephen Schwartz

Today in 2010, President Barack Obama and President Dmitry Medvedev signed the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty in Prague, Czech Republic. New START—which expired on February 5—limited each country to 1,550 deployed strategic warheads and a combined total of 700 ICBMs, SLBMs, and bombers.

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Stephen Schwartz

Last year, proponents of a more aggressive US nuclear posture against Russia, China, and North Korea began publicly advocating Trump upload numerous warheads now in storage onto Minuteman III ICBMs and Trident D5/LE SLBMs, to quickly deploy up to 2,044 additional warheads once New START expired.