Lugar Seeks Deal on Arms Treaty Ratification Text

Lugar Seeks Deal on Arms Treaty Ratification Text

Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010

U.S. Senator Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), shown in June, was working this week with Democratic and Republican lawmakers to prepare a new resolution for ratifying a replacement for the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images).

U.S. Senator Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) yesterday said he was negotiating with the Obama administration and Democratic and Republican lawmakers on possible changes to his proposed draft resolution for ratifying a new nuclear arms control treaty with Russia, Foreign Policy reported (see GSN, Sept. 13).
U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in April signed the "New START" agreement, which would obligate both nations to cap their fielded strategic nuclear weapons at 1,550 warheads, down from the maximum of 2,200 allowed each country by 2012 under the 2002 Moscow Treaty. The agreement would also limit U.S. and Russian deployed nuclear delivery vehicles to 700, with another 100 platforms allowed in reserve.
The pact, a successor to the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, has been submitted for ratification by Russia's legislature as well as the Senate. .

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