START I
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1991 treaty between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the reduction of strategic offensive arms
Key facts
- Type
- Strategic nuclear disarmament
- Drafted
- 29 June 1982 – June 1991
- Signed
- 31 July 1991
- Location
- Moscow , Soviet Union
- Effective
- 5 December 1994
- Condition
- Ratification of both parties
- Replaces
- SALT
- Replaced by
- New START
- Expired
- 5 December 2009
- Signatories
- George H. W. Bush Mikhail Gorbachev
- Parties
- United States Soviet Union
- Languages
- Russian, English
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign the START 1991.jpg
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- point in time
- 1991-07-31
- effective date
- 1994-12-05
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- START I
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Article
START I (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) was a bilateral treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union on the reduction and the limitation of strategic offensive arms. The treaty was signed on 31 July 1991 and entered into force on 5 December 1994. The treaty barred its signatories from deploying more than 6,000 nuclear warheads and a total of 1,600 intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and bombers.
START negotiated the largest and most complex arms control treaty in history, and its final implementation in late 2001 resulted in the removal of about 80% of all strategic nuclear weapons then in existence. Proposed by US President Ronald Reagan, it was renamed START I after negotiations began on START II.