START Decision Put Off to 2009

By Wade Boese

President-elect Barack Obama's to-do list grew longer in late November when the United States and other states-parties to the expiring START deferred a final decision on the nuclear accord's future. Working primarily with Russia, the incoming Obama administration will have until the treaty's expiration deadline of Dec. 5, 2009, to determine its fate.

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