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The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), signed in April 2010 by the United States and Russia, is currently pending before the U.S. Senate.  Over the last three months, the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees have held 20 hearings and built a formidable, bipartisan case in support of New START.

Current military leaders and former senior officials from both Republican and Democratic administrations have testified that New START would increase U.S. security by reducing the nuclear threat from Russia, providing transparency about Russian strategic forces, and bolstering U.S. efforts to stop the spread of nuclear weapons to terrorist groups and additional states.

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