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Backgrounder posted April 30, 2010 by The New START Working Group An Independent Assessment of New START
Abstract: The United States and Russia recently signed a new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START). An independent assessment by the New START Working Group raises questions about the treaty that should be considered important by all interested in national security and the integrity of the arms control process and its outcomes. Hopefully, a broad and bipartisan set…
Backgrounder posted June 24, 2010 by The New START Working Group New START: Potemkin Village Verification
Abstract: The United States and Russia signed a new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) on April 8, 2010, in Prague. An assessment by the New START Working Group concludes that New START’s verification measures are less rigorous than in its predecessor treaty, simply called START. This is particularly worrisome because as deployed U.S. strategic nuclear warheads…
WebMemo posted September 28, 2010 by The New START Working Group Senate Must Scrutinize Deeply Flawed New START Verification Measures
From the moment President Obama signed New START—the pending strategic nuclear arms control treaty with Russia—one thing has been clear: The treaty’s verification regime has serious shortcomings. These shortcomings have prompted the Administration to spruce up the appearance of the verification regime in order to convince the Senate to rush to consent to the ratification…
Issue Brief posted April 4, 2013 by Salim Furth, Ph.D. Research Review: Who Creates Jobs? Start-up Firms and New Businesses
Job creation is currently the Holy Grail for Washington policymakers. In order to craft better job policies, it is valuable to understand when, where, and by whom jobs are created. Rigorous data analysis tells us that start-up firms are disproportionate job creators and that new firms tend to appear in cities with smaller incumbent firms. Policymakers should keep future…
Commentary posted February 1, 2011 by Owen Graham, Michaela Dodge No Meeting of the Minds on New START
New START is a done deal. On Tuesday, the Russian Duma gave the green light to the nuclear arms reduction treaty, as the U.S. Senate had more than a month earlier. There was little doubt the Duma would approve. After all, Moscow’s negotiators got much the better of their U.S. counterparts. But the provisions inserted into Russia’s ratification law reveal that there…
Backgrounder posted September 21, 2010 by Baker Spring An Alternative to New START
Abstract: Finding an effective alternative to New START should begin by recognizing that today’s world of emerging new independent nuclear weapons powers demands a different concept of strategic deterrence than the retaliation-based deterrence of the Cold War. An effective alternative could be negotiated as a follow-on treaty to the Moscow Treaty. The new treaty should be…
Factsheet on January 19, 2012 NEW START TREATY: Little to Show One Year Later
Broken Promises No Increase in Global Security: Iran is close to having a nuclear weapon, according to a November IAEA report. North Korea has enough fissile material for six to eight nuclear weapons. China already has hundreds, and Russia has thousands of nuclear warheads. Several Arab countries are considering pursuing their own…
Commentary posted July 27, 2010 by James Jay Carafano, Ph.D. Scare Tactics on New START
If the Senate doesn’t ratify New START, proponents of the arms-control agreement fear, then … well, the world will come to end. The latest warning came from Joseph Cirincione, president of the Ploughshares Fund, a foundation that advocates a nuclear weapons-free world. “A delayed ratification with a close vote would be a blow to U.S. leadership around the world,” he…
WebMemo posted July 13, 2010 by Peter Brookes, Owen Graham New START: Beyond the Rhetoric
The recently inked United States–Russia Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) has ignited the op-ed pages of prominent newspapers and Web sites across the country over the last few days. The Senate must now reflect on the value of the arms control pact—which that legislative body must decide whether to ratify or not—to American national security. Some have…
Lecture posted July 12, 2010 by The Honorable Paula A. DeSutter Verification and the New START Treaty
Abstract: The Obama Administration is asserting that the New START arms control treaty with Russia has a “robust” verification regime, and that it is effectively verifiable. But it is certainly much less verifiable than the original START. The U.S. will know significantly less about current and future Russian missiles under New START, and the Russians will be able to do…
Backgrounder posted June 27, 2011 by Baker Spring Nuclear Weapons Modernization Priorities After New START
Abstract: In a world of multiple nuclear powers, the U.S. government should exchange Cold War–style deterrence for a policy of “protecting and defending” the U.S. and its allies against nuclear attack. Pursuing such a policy will require both maintaining a credible nuclear posture, which is modernized to meet the strategic needs of the 21st century, and expanding and…
Commentary posted September 13, 2010 by Peter Brookes Not a New START, But a Bad START
As the Senate returns to take up business before the fall elections, the Obama administration will argue that one of the critical issues in the senators’ inboxes will be ratifying the U.S.-Russia Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START). Actually, there’s no need for the Senate to rush consideration of the arms-control pact. It should take its time and examine…
Commentary posted June 10, 2010 by Edwin J. Feulner, Ph.D. Stop the New START
In the final season of the TV show "24," an idealistic president finds herself sacrificing her principles one by one in an attempt to preserve a "peace process." She eventually manages to hammer out a flawed treaty, but can't bring herself to sign it. In the real world, the Obama administration's overly idealistic pursuit of a reduction in American and Russian stockpiles…
Commentary posted December 3, 2010 by Owen Graham, Michaela Dodge Another Shoe Drops on New START
Unconfirmed reports of a secret side agreement to the New START nuclear arms treaty started circulating in mid-October. The side agreement supposedly restricts the U.S.’s ability to pursue a robust missile defense. The reports drove a number of U.S. Senators to write Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, demanding that the administration make available all the…
WebMemo posted April 18, 2011 by Baker Spring, Michaela Dodge Congress Must Demand Details of New START Implementation
New START, a bilateral arms control agreement with the Russian Federation, entered into force on February 5. This treaty is profoundly biased in favor of Russia.[1] It allows Moscow to build up its warheads and delivery vehicles, including intercontinental-range ballistic missiles (ICBMs), submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs), and bombers. All cuts in delivery…
Commentary posted September 20, 2010 by Peter Brookes New START Treaty's China Challenge
Discussion of the US-Russia Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty -- a k a New START -- has so far pretty much skipped one very important consideration: China. In the run-up to last week's committee vote to send the treaty to the floor for ratification this fall, senators quite rightly debated whether New START overly restrains US missile-defense options, has weak…
Commentary posted August 17, 2010 by James Jay Carafano, Ph.D. Bait and Switch Defense for New START
With concern over the arms control agreement President Obama signed with Russia growing, those pushing for ratification are devising increasingly far-fetched reasons why the Senate should rubber-stamp New START rather than give the treaty the serious and deliberate scrutiny a nuclear arms deal deserves. From the beginning, arguments for the treaty have sounded like scare…
Issue Brief posted January 4, 2013 by Patrick Louis Knudsen, Matt A. Mayer Hurricane Sandy Relief Bill: Starting the New Year with Bloated Deficit Spending
Just days after concluding the fiscal cliff debacle, Congress is about to embark on another spending spree—this time exploiting loopholes in the budget process to pile on new so-called emergency spending. The House on Friday will consider the first installment of a bloated $60 billion measure ostensibly aimed at providing relief for the victims of Hurricane Sandy. Most of…
Factsheet on November 9, 2010 Lame Duck, Lame START: Inappropriate Timing for New START Debate
Simply Unprecedented No “Lame Duck” Vote in History: Of the major nuclear arms control treaties between the U.S. and the Soviet Union and later the Russian Federation, none has been voted on in the U.S. Senate during a “lame duck” session. It is unprecedented for the U.S. Senate to vote on a treaty of this importance and magnitude during a…
Commentary posted December 7, 2010 by Conn Carroll New START is a Bad Deal at Any Time
For two election cycles in a row, a frustrated American people voted to throw out the incumbent party because they did not like how Washington was operating. In 2008 the Republicans lost the White House and in 2010 the Democrats lost the House. The message from the American people is clear: stop the cynical backroom deal-making and start addressing our nation's problems…
Commentary posted December 5, 2010 by James Jay Carafano, Ph.D. Nuke Modernization is Chump Bait for New START Treaty
Invasion of North Africa by the Allies loomed when the War Department in Washington exploded in crisis after a secret cable was received containing the code-word "Telek." The crytographers were stumped. It couldn't be deciphered. It took a furious exchange of communiques to sort it out. The answer: Telek was not a code. Telek was Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's dog. The cable…
Commentary posted December 2, 2010 by Edwin Meese III New Start: What Would Reagan Do?
President Obama has taken to the airwaves to pump up support for the New Start Treaty with Russia by arguing that Ronald Reagan would have endorsed it. Both of us had the high honor of knowing our 40th president. We worked for Ronald Reagan, and we're sure that's not the case. There are many reasons why this treaty falls short of those negotiated by President Reagan.…
Commentary posted November 30, 2010 by Brian Darling Playing Politics on National Security on New START Treaty
It’s a full court press by the Obama Administration. The goal: to hurry the Senate into approving the stalled nuclear arms treaty, the New START Treaty, with Russia during the Lame Duck session. This treaty is flawed, yet the Administration and allies in the Senate want to rush passage, because they are unwilling to seriously address shortcomings contained within the…
Commentary posted May 10, 2010 by Owen Graham, Ariel Cohen, Ph.D. New START: Abandoning Missile Defense
The Obama administration is heralding the New START Treaty — a bilateral treaty with Russia, signed on April 8 in Prague — as a major accomplishment. But now that leading national-security experts have had time to review the pact closely, it’s starting to get a lot of criticism. There is grave concern, not just with some of the treaty’s language, but also with some of the…
Commentary posted September 26, 2010 by James Jay Carafano, Ph.D. A New START for the Demint Treatment on National Security
Jim DeMint, R-SC, has a reputation for caring about national security more than just about anyone else in the Senate. But in 2007, he drew howls from veterans, voting against a Veterans Affairs bill. The backstory here is key. As DeMint tells it, the Veterans Administration wanted to downsize an under-utilized hospital in Los Angeles, and plan to sell some…

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