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By midnight on Dec. 4, 2009, the last U.S. inspector had to be out of the Russian Federation â€" at that moment, the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) was going out of force. Nearly a year has passed since that day, and in all that time, we have had no data exchanges on Russia’s strategic forces and no opportunity to inspect Russian strategic nuclear bases. Our inspectors are poised to resume their important work, but they can only do so after New START â€" now awaiting a Senate vote to approve ratification â€" enters into force.

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