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treaty is to seal the sides" commitment to cut the number of nuclear warheads each possesses to between 1,500 and 1,675 within seven years, and the number of delivery vehicles for them to between 500 and 1,100.Back in 2002, presidents George Bush and Vladimir Putin signed the Treaty on Strategic Offensive Reductions (SORT) to limit their nuclear arsenals by 2012 to 1,700-2,200 operationally deployed warheads each. Not so very different from the new agreement being prepared for signing.
Analysts agree that the new START treaty should be an appetizer before a main course. If it fails at that, the victory of its achievement will not be significant, since the cutbacks have been kept to a minimum. In fact, the new START treaty is so moderate that the sides are only optimistic because it holds the promise of further work.
"The two sides share a common goal to pursue further nuclear arms cuts. A common path has not yet been established," said Daryl Kimball,
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