The New Start treaty called for cuts in the number of deployed strategic warheads to 1,550.
We, along with the rest of the world, are also eager to see the two leaders commit to further reductions in the number of deployed weapons.
But it notes that actual spending could be $852 billion less than that if the "number of deployed troops is smaller and the pace of operations is diminished".
Washington and Moscow pledged in the 2010 New Start treaty to reduce their number of deployed long-range nuclear weapons to 1,550 from 2,200 by 2017.
He needs to back it up with significant cuts in the number of deployed strategic nuclear weapons, ballistic missile submarines and intercontinental ballistic missiles.
New Start cuts the number of deployed strategic warheads to 1,550, and the number of launchers and heavy bombers to 800.
For strategic and budgetary reasons, they need to further reduce the number of deployed weapons and the number kept in reserve.
America is on course to cut its total stockpile by half by 2012, with the number of deployed warheads down by two-thirds from today's levels.
Those who hoped for substantive gestures towards disarmament will be left just as disappointed as those who had hoped that a 2010 US-Russia agreement on limiting the number of deployed nuclear warheads would be followed by further efforts.
What he's accomplished: The Administration oversaw the ratification of a new Strategic Arms-Reduction Treaty with Russia in April , 2010 which will significantly reduce the number of deployed strategic weapons.
Gennadi Zyuganov also said Mr. Putin had "effectively destroyed the Russian nuclear shield" by agreeing to a two-thirds reduction, to between 1,700 and 2,200, of the number of deployed strategic nuclear warheads in each nation.
