Early in his presidency, he successfully negotiated the New START treaty with Russia, which made significant reductions in their nuclear arsenals.

To comply with the START II most U. S. multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles, or MIRVs, have been eliminated and replaced with single warhead missiles.

Under the START II Treaty, which never had and most likely will never have a binding effect, Russia would have been able to place 90 single-warhead solid fuel missiles in reequipped R-36 silos.

START proved to exceed even the most optimistic predictions and the purpose of MAST is to confirm the results of its forerunner by using a larger more purpose-built experiment.

The Minutemen in this complex remained on alert for nearly 30 years, until the wing was deactivated following the signing of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty ( START ) by President George Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991.

* 1992 – A " joint understanding " agreement on arms reduction is signed by U. S. President George Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin ( this would be later codified in START II ).

After the 1986 Reykjavik summit between U. S. President Ronald Reagan and the new Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, the United States and the Soviet Union concluded two important nuclear arms reduction treaties: the INF Treaty ( 1987 ) and START I ( 1991 ).

** A ' Joint Understanding ' agreement on arms reduction is signed by U. S. President George H. W. Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin ( this is later codified in START II ).

To be admitted, a state must: be a producer / exporter of arms or sensitive industrial equipment ; maintain non-proliferation policies and appropriate national policies including: adherence to non-proliferation policies, control list and, where applicable, guidelines of the Nuclear Suppliers Group, the Missile Technology Control Regime and the Australia Group ; and adherence to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the Biological Weapons Convention, the Chemical Weapons Convention and, where applicable, START I, including the Lisbon Protocol ; and maintain fully effective export controls.

East – West tensions rapidly subsided through the mid-to-late 1980s, culminating with the final summit in Moscow in 1989, when Gorbachev and George H. W. Bush signed the START I arms control treaty.

In addition to regulation of fire arms, McConnell has also supported nuclear arms control initiatives such as the START I treaty, which he voted for in 1992, describing it as " an outstanding agreement ".

The Treaty Between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on Strategic Offensive Reductions ( SORT ), also known as the Treaty of Moscow, was a strategic arms reduction treaty between the United States and Russia that was in force from June 2003 until February 2011 when it was superseded by the New START treaty.

Ronald Reagan is credited with increasing spending on national defense and diplomacy which contributed to the end of the Cold War, deploying U. S. Pershing II missiles in West Germany in response to the Soviet stationing of SS-20 missiles near Europe, negotiating the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty ( INF ) to substantially reduce nuclear arms and initiating negotiations with the Soviet Union for the treaty that would later be known as START I, proposing the Strategic Defense Initiative, a controversial plan to develop a missile defense system, re-appointing monetarists Paul Volcker and ( later ) Alan Greenspan to be chairmen of the Federal Reserve, ending the high inflation that damaged the economy under his predecessors Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford, lowering tax rates significantly ( under Reagan, the top personal tax bracket dropped from 70 % to 28 % in 7 years ) and leading a major reform of the tax system, providing arms and other support to anti-communist groups such as the Contras and the mujahideen, selling arms to foreign allies such as Taiwan, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq ( see Iran – Iraq War ), greatly escalating the " war on drugs " with his policies and Nancy Reagan's " Just Say No " campaign, ordering the April 14, 1986 bombing of Tripoli and Benghazi in retaliation for an April 5 bombing of a West Berlin nightclub frequented by U. S. servicemen, in which the Libyan government was deemed complicit, and signing the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 which compensated victims of the Japanese American Internment during World War II.

His other foreign assignments included Budapest and Jerusalem, as well as service on the U. S. Delegation to the START arms control negotiations in 1985.

The master then ends transmission with a stop bit, or it may send another START bit if it wishes to retain control of the bus for another transfer ( a " combined message ").

The control logic takes in commands from the user, as represented by the event named “ START ”, but also has automatic recurring sample time events, as represented by the event named “ TIC ”.

In 1991, the United States and the Soviet Union agreed in the START I treaty to reduce their deployed ICBMs and attributed warheads.

However, since the abandonment of the START II treaty, the U. S. is said to be considering retaining 800 warheads on an existing 450 missiles.

* New START Treaty — signed 2010, into force in 2011: replaces SORT treaty, reduces deployed nuclear warheads by about half, will remain into force until at least 2021

** The United States and the Soviet Union sign the START I treaty limiting strategic nuclear weapons.

* 2011-New START treaty with Russia goes into effect.

* Unilateral disarmament, the elimination of weapons outside of the framework of an international agreement, i. e., they are not bound by a treaty such as START.

The 355 FW also provides initial and recurrency flying training to all U. S. Air Force A / OA-10 and EC-130 pilots and crews ; and is the ACC's executive agent for INF and START treaty compliance.

Perry testified in favor of U. S. ratification of the START II treaty, completed in 1996 ; in October 1996 he spoke to a session of the Russian Duma in Moscow, urging its members to ratify the treaty.

His disappointments included failure to obtain Russian ratification of the START II treaty ; slowness in securing increases in the budget for weapon systems modernization ; and the faulty perceptions of the Gulf War illness syndrome held by some of the media and much of the public.

Under the START II treaty, which never entered into force, the missiles were to be removed from the U. S. nuclear arsenal in 2005, leaving the LGM-30 Minuteman as the only type of land-based ICBM in the U. S. arsenal.

Despite the demise of the START II treaty, the last of the LGM-118A " Peacekeeper " ICBMs ( but not their warheads ) were decommissioned on September 19, 2005.

On the following day, Russia responded by withdrawing from START II treaty ( intended to ban MIRV ICBMs ).

In a victory for both the Freeze campaign and SANE, Ronald Reagan proposed START I, part of a two phase treaty between the U. S. and the USSR that would reduce overall warhead counts on any missile type.

START ( for STrategic Arms Reduction Treaty ) was a bilateral treaty between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( USSR ) on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms.

Proposed by United States President Ronald Reagan, it was renamed START I after negotiations began on the second START treaty.

The START I treaty expired 5 December 2009.

On 8 April 2010, the replacement New START treaty was signed in Prague by U. S. President Obama and Russian President Medvedev.

In 1996 they signed an additional deal with the STC Complex of Russia to launch commercial polar-orbiting loads on surplus Soviet-era SS-25 ICBMs which were being re-purposed as small orbital launchers known as START-1 ( so named as they were made surplus by the START treaty ).

* 2010-A series of measures pass through a historic lame-duck session of Congress including an extension of Bush-era tax cuts for all Americans, the ratification of the New START II treaty with Russia, signing of an agreement to repeal the don't ask don't tell policy concerning gays and lesbians openly serving in the US military, and passage of a 9 / 11 first responders health-care bill.

In 1984, as a result of the first series of Strategic Arms Reduction Treaties START I between the United States and the Soviet Union, SAC began to decommission its Titan II missile system.

In 1995 aircraft from Fairchild flew to Travis AFB, California in support of its first Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty ( START ) mission, transporting Russian inspectors to sites in the Western U. S. The wing has flown START missions in the U. S. every year since.

Deutsche had its own group of bad CDOs called START.

SORT was one in a long line of treaties and negotiations on mutual nuclear disarmament between Russia ( and its predecessor, the Soviet Union ) and the United States, which includes SALT I ( 1969 – 1972 ), the ABM Treaty ( 1972 ), SALT II ( 1972 – 1979 ), the INF Treaty ( 1987 ), START I ( 1991 ), START II ( 1993 ) and New START ( 2010 ).

In 1985 the group joined the Russian fifth generation computer project START, in which Kronos became a platform for developing modular multiprocessor reconfigurable systems MARS and played a leading role in the development of the first Russian full 32-bit workstation and its software.

The final vote was similar to START II with nearly a third of the deputies voting against.