On the recordApril 21, 2010
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.
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congress.govThe 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.
Tauscher describes the purpose of the New START treaty regarding U.S.-Russia nuclear balance.
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No one should doubt our resolve to hold accountable those responsible for such aggression.
We want to give more incentive to non-nuclear states not to seek or acquire nuclear weapons.
That's true of all treaties. Most treaties have a national-interest exit clause.
This is an issue that, when your former colleague, President Obama, was in the Senate, was something that he believed to be a primary threat to the American people and the stabilization of the world community.