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		<title>New START Data: Modest Reductions and Decreased Transparency</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 21:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hans M. Kristensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New START aggregate numbers have been published by the United States and Russia. . By Hans M. Kristensen The latest New START treaty aggregate numbers of strategic arms, which was quietly released by the State Department earlier last week, shows modest reductions and important changes in U.S. and Russian strategic nuclear forces. Most surprisingly, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>20th Anniversary of START</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:46:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hans M. Kristensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[July 31st is the 20-year anniversary of signing of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) between the United States and the Soviet Union. The treaty, also known as START I, marked the beginning of a treaty-based reduction of U.S. and Soviet (later Russian) strategic nuclear forces after the end of the Cold War. START I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New START Aggregate Numbers Released: First Round Slim Picking</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:32:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hans M. Kristensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You won&#8217;t be able to count SS-18s in the New START aggregate date. . By Hans M. Kristensen Russia and the United States have released the first Fact Sheet with aggregate numbers for the strategic offensive nuclear forces counted under the New START treaty. It shows that Russia has already dropped below the New START [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter Urges Release of New START Data</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 13:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hans M. Kristensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ambassador Brooks, Secretary Perry and Ambassador Matlock join FAS in call for continuing nuclear transparency under New START treaty .By Hans M. Kristensen, Three former U.S. officials have joined FAS in urging the United States and Russia to continue to declassify the same degree of information about their strategic nuclear forces under the New START [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Article: Russian Nuclear Forces, 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 18:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hans M. Kristensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russia has 3,700-5,400 nonstrategic nuclear weapons, including the old dual-capable AS-4 Kitchen air-launched missile seen here under the wings of a Tu-22 Backfire bomber at an unknown airbase. All Russian nonstrategic warheads are in central storage.   Image: web . By Hans M. Kristensen The latest Nuclear Notebook in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 NATO Countries Want More Transparency for Non-Strategic Nuclear Weapons</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2011 20:24:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hans M. Kristensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ten NATO countries recommend increasing transparency of non-strategic nuclear weapons, including numbers and locations at military facilities such as Incirlik Air Base in Turkey. Neither NATO nor Russia currently disclose such information. . By Hans M. Kristensen Four NATO countries supported by six others have proposed a series of steps that NATO and Russia should [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New START Data Exchange: Will it Increase or Decrease International Nuclear Transparency?</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2011/03/startexchange.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hans M. Kristensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. officials say that aggregate numbers of the New START treaty will be made publicly available but that these may be very general numbers and a decision still has to be made. For a copy of the final START aggregate numbers, click here. . By Hans M. Kristensen The first data exchange of the New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Talk at Georgetown U Event on Tac Nuke Treaty</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2011/03/georgetow.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 19:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hans M. Kristensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Hans M. Kristensen The Center on National Security and the Law and the Federal Legislation and Administrative Clinic co-hosted an event at Georgetown University Law Center on Tuesday, March 1st: Next Steps after New START: A Treaty on Tactical Nuclear Weapons. The event included a keynote speech by Edward Warner, the Senior Advisor to the under [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Air Force Magazine Prints Nuke Chart</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2011/02/afmag.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 21:16:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hans M. Kristensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Hans M. Kristensen The January 2011 issue of Air Force Magazine has a nice spread on the Chart Page where they reproduce a chart I produced of U.S. and Russian nuclear warhead inventories. The chart is the product of the research and public education I do about the status of nuclear forces in collaboration [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New START: It&#8217;s in the Bag!</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2011/01/newstartbag.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hans M. Kristensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New START treaty is in the bag, approved by the US Congress and Russian Duma. . By Hans M. Kristensen The upper house of the Russian Parliament (Duma) earlier today approved the New START treaty signed by presidents Medvedev and Obama in Prague on April 8, 2010. This follows approval of the treaty by [...]]]></description>
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