US Senate delays consideration of nuclear arms treaty with Russia
AUG 04, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024555
New York Times : On 8 April 2010 in the Czech capital of Prague, Presidents Barack Obama of the US and Dmitry Medvedev of Russia signed New START , a bilateral arms treaty that would reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the two countries’ arsenals by more than half. A two-thirds majority vote by the US Senate is needed to ratify New START (or any other international treaty), and before a treaty is ratified, the Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee holds a meeting to consider it. That meeting, which would have taken place today, has been postponed indefinitely after the committee’s chair, John Kerry (D-MA), agreed to Republican requests for more time to examine the treaty.
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