START: victory or defeat?

On April 8, 2010 Presidents of the Russian Federation and USA, finally signed Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) in Prague. According to the treaty the parties are committed to limit their operatively deployed nuclear forces to 700 carriers (800 of deployed and non-deployed) and 1550 warheads. What is even more important, the text includes a detailed system of definitions and calculation rules.

Russia and the USA had been attempting to work out the provisions of a new agreement for more than a year. According to the Russian expert Andrey Pavlov the lack of mutual trust between Vladimir Putin and G.W.Bush made achievement of more or less serious agreement in the field of nuclear arms impossible during that administration. Some hope appeared only when the new US president came to power.
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