The revolutionary START Turns 30: Assessments and Prospects
... elaboration of technical details achieved over years of intense work (1985–1991), START I is an outstanding international document. The parties to the Treaty succeeded in coordinating the entire range of extremely complex documents that make up this treaty. START I was developed as a bilateral Soviet–American treaty but it became a multilateral instrument following the collapse of the USSR: Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine acceded to the current Russian–American treaty and committed to eliminating nuclear weapons on their territories to accede to the NPT as non-nuclear states. To a certain degree, the Treaty’s key achievement lies not solely in asserting arms control but in ensuring that all subsequent treaties resulted in progressively greater ...
