Ellen Tauscher: “It will enhance our security by reducing and limiting the U.S. and Russian strategic nuclear forces.”

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.

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

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

The United States strengthened its longstanding Negative Security Assurance by declaring that the United States will not use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear weapons states that are party to the Nuclear…