Things just reached a new and dangerous level between the United States and Russia over the Ukraine situation. Beginning today, June 1, 2023, the United States is withholding from Russia notifications required under the START treaty, including updates on the status or location of treaty-accountable items such as nuclear missiles and launchers.
New START is a nuclear arms reduction treaty between the United States and the Russian Federation with the formal name of Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms. It was signed on 8 April 2010 in Prague, by then US President Barack Obama and then Russian Federation President, Dmitry Medvedev, pictured above in Prague in April, 2010.
After ratification it entered into force on 5 February 2011.
New START replaced the Treaty of Moscow (SORT), which was to expire in December 2012. It follows the START I treaty, which expired in December 2009; the proposed START II treaty which never entered into force; and the START III treaty, for which negotiations were never concluded.
The treaty calls for halving the number of strategic nuclear missile launchers. A new inspection and verification regime will be established, replacing the SORT mechanism.
It does not limit the number of operationally inactive nuclear warheads that can be stockpiled, a number in the high thousands.
Today, June 1, 2023, the US State Department announced the United States is withholding from Russia, notifications required by that Treaty. Here is a direct link to the US State Department announcement (Click Here)
This is yet another, dangerous, step by the United States toward Russia, in which the two nations are on a nuclear war collision course over the ongoing Ukraine conflict.
With this announcement today, the US is officially halting a NUCLEAR WEAPONS Treaty requirement.
Emphasis on "nuclear."
Prepare as best you can with emergency food, water, medicine, an electric generator, fuel for that generator and for your vehicles, communications gear like a CB radio in each vehicle, and ONE AT HOME, TOO, along with a Shortwave radio (HF Band) so you can get international information and not rely on the lying, US news media.
