Ellen Tauscher: “We want to give more incentive to non-nuclear states not to seek or acquire nuclear weapons.”

China's military modernization programs, including its nuclear modernization, are a significant concern which we watch closely.

While the United States and Russia frequently discuss the problems of Iran and North Korea pursuing development of nuclear weapons, this was not a topic of discussion in the negotiation of the bilateral New START treaty.

Thank you for all of your work to keep arms control and nuclear nonproliferation at the forefront of our foreign policy.

The New START treaty is a bilateral agreement designed to stabilize the strategic balance between the United States and the Russian Federation at lower levels of nuclear forces.