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Dick Lugar: “The United States maintained a permanent, continuous, boots-on-the-ground inspection capacity in START I to monitor…”

On the recordApril 28, 2010
The United States maintained a permanent, continuous, boots-on-the-ground inspection capacity in START I to monitor Russian missile production.
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Dick Lugar
Republican · Indiana

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Lugar questioned the lack of continuous inspection under New START compared to START I.

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