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Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Russia's strategic missiles comply with START-1 treaty

Russia's Strategic Missile Forces (SMF) strictly comply with the provisions of the 1991 strategic arms reductions treaty, and this has been confirmed by numerous U.S. inspections, the force commander said on Tuesday.

The existing START-1 treaty was signed by Moscow and Washington on July 31, 1991, five months before the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine have since disposed of all their nuclear weapons or transferred them to Russia, and the U.S. and Russia have reduced the number of delivery vehicles to 1,600 each, with no more than 6,000 warheads.

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