the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks
/ðə strəˌtiːdʒɪk ɑːmz rɪˈdʌkʃn tɔːks/
/ðə strəˌtiːdʒɪk ɑːrmz rɪˈdʌkʃn tɔːks/
(abbreviation START)
- talks between the US and the USSR to reduce the number of their nuclear weapons. Reductions were made after President Ronald Reagan and the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed the INF Treaty in 1987 and President Bush and Gorbachev signed the START treaty in 1991. Another START treaty between the US and Russia did not come into force, and discussions about a third were not concluded. In 2010 President Obama of the US and President Medvedev of Russia signed the New START treaty, which limits the number of nuclear weapons far more.
战略武器削减谈判：美国和苏联之间为减少核武器数量进行的谈判。罗纳德·里根总统和苏联领导人米哈伊尔·戈尔巴乔夫在1987年签署了INF条约，布什总统和戈尔巴乔夫在1991年签署了INF条约之后做出了削减。美俄之间的另一项START条约没有生效，有关第三次条约的讨论尚未结束。2010年，美国总统奥巴马和俄罗斯总统梅德韦杰夫签署了《新START条约》，该条约限制了核武器的数量。