Expectations Are Low For Another Round Of U.S. - Russian START Talks

Next U.S.-Russia Arms Talks To Move In Challenging Direction -- Reuters

(Reuters) - The next round of U.S.-Russian nuclear arms talks is likely to focus on the delicate task of reducing a much broader range of atomic weapons, U.S. negotiators said on Friday as they discussed the first anniversary of the New START treaty.

Ted Warner, senior adviser to the undersecretary of defense for arms control, said the United States and Russia had reached a point where negotiations needed to include strategic and tactical weapons, regardless of whether they are in storage or mounted on delivery vehicles.

New START, which went into force in February last year, commits the two sides to reducing their strategic, or longer-range, deployed nuclear weapons to 1,550 per side, down from the previous ceiling of 2,200.

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My Comment: Russia is already making noises that they may leave the new START Treaty .... with the European missile defense program being the focal point of their concern. But this is all talk .... nothing is going to happen this year because of both country's Presidential elections. If there is going to be progress .... think 2013.