Provisions
START III will establish by December 31, 2007 a ceiling of 2,000-2,500 strategic nuclear weapons for each of the parties, representing a 30-45 percent reduction in the number of total deployed strategic warheads permitted under START II. START III will include measures relating to the transparency of strategic nuclear warhead inventories and the destruction of strategic nuclear warheads. The Russian Federation has proposed a reduction of the overall threshold of up to 1,500 warheads, a more substantial reduction of nuclear arms than had been foreseen at Helsinki in March 1997.Status
Negotiation of the details of START-3 is pending on the ratification by the Russian Duman of START-2. The Russian Federation is ready to hold talks on reducing strategic offensive weapons on the basis of basic elements defined during the meeting between its President and the United States President in Helsinki in March 1997, and confirmed in Cologne in June 1999. As of early 2000, Russia remained committed to the goal of reducing the number of strategic nuclear warheads held by each side to 1,500, while the American position remains that 2,000 to 2,500 warheads are needed for effective nuclear deterrence.Chronology
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Primary documents, including treaty text and associated memoranda, statements and other related material.Documents
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- De-Alerting Alert
- POST-START: WHAT DO WE WANT? WHAT CAN WE ACHIEVE? Richard Garwin - TESTIMONY to the Committee on Foreign Affairs United States Senate February 27, 1992
- "The Future of Russian-US Strategic Arms Reductions: START III and Beyond" joint U.S.-Russian meeting, February 2-6, 1998 -- MIT Security Studies Program and the Moscow Institute of Physics and TechnologyCenter for Arms Control, Energy, and Environmental Studies