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New Start Treaty Calls For More Intensive Inspection, Official Says

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Friday, September 17th, 2010

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The new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) pending in the Senate calls for tougher, "eyes on" verification, a senior State Department official said. "This treaty...has a more intensive verification regime for on-site inspection of reentry vehicles, or nuclear warheads, so we are actually going to be counting the number of nuclear warheads on top of missiles," Rose Gottemoeller, assistant secretary of State for Verification, Compliance and Implementation, and chief U.S. negotiator for the New START Treaty, told the Defense Writers…

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