START Treaty Signed: US and USSR Agree to Cut Nuclear Arsenals
The United States and Soviet Union signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, capping each nation at 6,000 nuclear warheads and 1,600 delivery systems in the most ambitious arms control agreement ever negotiated. By its full implementation in 2001, START had removed roughly 80 percent of the world's strategic nuclear weapons from deployment. The treaty's verification mechanisms established the trust framework that made subsequent disarmament agreements possible.
July 31, 1991
35 years ago
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