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The New START Treaty and Protocol

Posted on April 08, 2010 at 10:17 AM EDT

Type: Blog Post, Includes Video

, President Obama and President Medvedev of Russia signed the New START treaty and its protocol. Read the text of the treaty and the President's remarks.. Earlier today, President Obama and President Medvedev of Russia signed the New START treaty and its protocol.  PDF versions of these documents are available here: Read the Treaty (pdf) Read the Protocol (pdf)  UPDATED with video: To view this content, please ... -video/video/signing-new-start-nuclear-arms-treaty-with-russia", "shareTitle": "Signing of New START Nuclear Arms Treaty with Russia", "image": "http://default/sites/default/files/imagecache/gallery_video_full/audio-video/video_thumbnail/P040810PS-0503 ...

Presidential Memorandum -- New START Treaty

November 2, 2011 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE SUBJECT: Delegation of Authority to Submit the Certification and Reports Specified in the Resolution of Advice and Consent to Ratification of the Treaty between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (the "New START Treaty") By the authority vested in me as President ... and Consent to Ratification of the New START Treaty, and I hereby authorize and direct the Director of National Intelligence to prepare the report specified in that section. The Secretary of State shall submit the certification along with the report prepared ...

The New START Treaty: Signed

of the New START Treaty in the Oval Office, Feb. 2, 2011. Participants include, from left: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen; Energy Secretary Steven Chu; Defense Secretary Robert Gates; Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Sen ... ) Today the President ratified a landmark nuclear arms treaty with Russia, New START.  As the President said during the end of the last Congress, the treaty is "a national security imperative" as well as "a cornerstone of our ... toward this limit and each deployed heavy bomber equipped for nuclear armaments counts as one warhead toward this limit. This limit is 74% lower than the limit of the 1991 START Treaty and 30% lower than the deployed strategic warhead limit ...

Weekly Address: New START Treaty "Fundamental" to Security

Posted on November 20, 2010 at 06:00 AM EDT

Type: Blog Post, Includes Video

0 Includes Video? Weekly Address: New START Treaty “Fundamental” to Security The President says ratifying the New START, a pivotal treaty with Russia on nuclear weapons, must happen this year and says it is time for the Senate to act. The President says ratifying the New START, a pivotal treaty with Russia on nuclear weapons, must happen this year.  He explains that failure to ratify the treaty this year would not only mean losing our nuclear inspectors in Russia, but also undermine ...

The Thorough Review of the New START Treaty

Ben Rhodes, Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications Rhodes, debunks the argument that the New START Treaty is being rushed. Yesterday, the Vice-Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff, General James Cartwright, urged the Senate to approve the New START Treaty, saying “We need START, and we need it badly.” In Washington, dealing with the urgent sometimes trumps dealing with the truly important.  With the Senate’s consideration of New START, the United ... the facts.  The New START Treaty is not being rushed at all – it has been before the Senate since May 2010.  In those seven months, the Senate has held 18 hearings, received scores of briefings, and received responses to nearly 1000 questions ...

START Treaty Meeting

President Barack Obama attends a START Treaty meeting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Nov. 18, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) ...

Letter from the President on the New START Treaty

TEXT OF A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT TO THE CHAIRMEN AND RANKING MEMBERS OF THE SENATE COMMITTEES ON FOREIGN RELATIONS AND ARMED SERVICES February 2, 2011 Dear Mr. Chairman:    (Dear Senator:) I am pleased to transmit, in response to Condition 6 of the New START Treaty Resolution of Advice and Consent to Ratification of December 22, 2010, the Report on Conventional Prompt Global Strike. I look forward to continuing to work with you and the Committee as we implement the New START Treaty.                Sincerely,                BARACK OBAMA ...

The New START Treaty: "A National Security Imperative"

Posted on November 18, 2010 at 12:43 PM EDT

Type: Blog Post, Includes Video

by the Vice President to discuss the New START treaty and why it is in our clear national security interest that the Senate approve it this year. To view this content, please download ... /11/18/start-treaty-and-national-security", "shareTitle": "The START Treaty and National Security", "image": "http://default/sites/default/files/imagecache/gallery_video_full/audio-video/video_thumbnail/P111810CK-0020-2.jpg", "width": "430", "height": "282 ... START treaty and why it is in our clear national security interest that the Senate approve it this year.  The President said that "the key point here is this is not about politics, it’s about national security" -- and indeed the names ...

The START Treaty and National Security

Posted on November 18, 2010 at 04:46 PM EDT

Type: Audio/Video

:06 Remarks by the President at a Meeting on the New START Treaty 11182010_PO_on_the_New_START_Treaty.srt http://www.whitehouse.gov/videos/2010/November/111810_START_Treaty.mp4 0 President Obama calls ratifying the new START Treaty the national security imperative for the upcoming session of Congress as he drops by a meeting led by Vice President Joe Biden. http://www.whitehouse.gov/videos/2010/November/111810_START_Treaty.mp4 ...

Message from the President on the New START Treaty

for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms, signed in Prague on April 8, 2010, with Protocol, including Annexes (the "New START Treaty"; Treaty Document 111-5), and I hereby certify that: 1. United States National Technical Means, in conjunction with the verification activities provided for in the New START Treaty, are sufficient to ensure effective monitoring of Russian compliance with the provisions of the New START Treaty and timely warning of any Russian preparation to break out of the limits in Article II of the New START Treaty. 2. The New START Treaty does not require, at any point during which it will be in force, the United States to provide to the Russian Federation telemetric information under ...