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ACCESSION NUMBER:260484
FILE ID:TXT301
DATE:12/30/92
TITLE:START TWO TREATY (12/30/92)
TEXT:*92123001.TXT
START TWO TREATY
1Text:  White House fact sheet)  (330)
(The following fact sheet on the START Two treaty, to be signed January 3
in Sochi by President Bush and Russian President Yeltsin, was issued by the
White House December 30.)
On January 3, 1993, President George Bush and President Boris Yeltsin
will sign the treaty between the United States of America and the Russian
Federation on Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms.
 The treaty, often called START II, will codify the Joint Understanding
signed by the two presidents at the Washington Summit on June 17, 1992.
START II will require the most sweeping nuclear arms reductions in history.
It will eliminate the most destabilizing strategic weapons -- heavy ICBMs
and multiple-warhead ICBMs -- and reduce current levels of strategic
nuclear forces by two-thirds.
The START II reductions will be implemented in two phases.  The first phase
will be completed seven years after entry-into-force of the START Treaty.
The second phase will be completed by the year 2003, or by the end of the
year 2000 if the United States can help finance the elimination of
strategic offensive arms in Russia.
The START II Treaty builds upon the START Treaty signed on July 31, 1991.
All START provisions pertain, except as explicitly modified in the new
treaty.  Because of the close relationship between the two, START II may
not enter into force before START.  It shall also remain in force
throughout the duration of START.
The following chart compares the central limits set by the START Treaty and
by the START II Treaty.
                      START        START II-    START II-
                                   PHASE I      PHASE II
Total Strategic       6000 ac-     3800-4250    3000-3500
Warheads              countable    actual       actual
Ballistic Missile     4900         No           No
Warheads                           specific     specific
                                   sublimit     sublimit
MIRVed ICBM Warheads  N/A          1200         0
SLBM Warheads         N/A          2160         1700-1750
Heavy ICBM Warheads   1540         650          0
Mobile ICBM Warheads  1100         START        START
                                   applies      applies
NNNN
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