CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START), arms control negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union (and, later, Russia) that were aimed at reducing those two countries’ arsenals of nuclear warheads and of the missiles and bombers capable of delivering such weapons.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) were a series of bilateral conferences and international treaties signed between the United States and the Soviet Union.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) I was signed July 31, 1991, by the United States and the Soviet Union. This was the first treaty that required U.S. and Soviet/Russian reductions of strategic nuclear weapons.

Detailed explanation-4: -Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT), also known as the Moscow Treaty, on May 24, 2002. The treaty committed the United States and Russia to reducing their deployed strategic nuclear forces to 1, 700-2, 200 warheads apiece.

Detailed explanation-5: -U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty II (START II) on January 3, 1993. START II established a limit on strategic weapons and required that reductions be implemented in two phases.