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Russia corrected its March 2014 New START declaration

As of March 1, 2014, the total number of Russia's deployed and non-deployed launchers accounted under New STARTwas 905, not 906 reported in Russia's original data submission. The corrected information was published by the U.S. State Department on July 1, 2014.

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While in the grand scheme of international nuclear arms control, this is a very small point. However, I was curious as to how this “mistake” happened? How do you miscount? Or, was this just a "paperwork error”? Any insight?

Frank Shuler
USA

[Frank Shuler ] [July 4, 2014] [#]

No, I don't know the details. But it's not that unusual - things like that happened in START a few times. As I understand, determining operational status of a bomber could be quite tricky sometimes.

[Pavel Podvig ] [July 5, 2014] [#]

Pavel!

Thank you a lot for the sources on 15Zh61 missile launches.

Several inner sources proved the information on 15Zh61 launches - the last one was in 1998 and this was the end.

Thanks a lot again!!

[Max Pashnev] [July 13, 2014] [#]

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