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The Treaty on Strategic Offensive Reductions (SORT) is a 2002 treaty between Russia and the United States limiting their nuclear arsenal to 2200 warheads each. It is the latest in a long line of treaties and negotiations on mutual nuclear disarmament between the two nations, which includes SALT I ( 1969- 1972), ABM Treaty ( 1972), SALT II ( 1972- 1979), INF Treaty ( 1987), START I ( 1991) and START IISTART II the "STrategic Arms Reduction Treaty" was signed by George H. Bush and Boris Yeltsin in January 1993, which banned the use of MIRVs. It followed START I. The historic agreement started on June 17, 1992 with the signing of a 'Joint Understanding' ( 19931993 is a common year starting on Friday and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003 Events January January 1 Czechoslovakia divides. Establishment of independent Slovakia and Czech Republic.).See also:
- Russia and weapons of mass destructionRussia possesses one of the two largest stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction in the world (the United States possess the other). Russia declared an arsenal of 40,000 tons of chemical weapons in 1997 and is said to have around 19,000 nuclear power wea
- The United States and weapons of mass destructionThe Federal Government of the United States is known to possess two types of weapons of mass destruction: nuclear weapons and chemical weapons. It is known to possess biological weapons as research samples. arsenal of weapons of mass destruction is the la
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