Russia met a Monday deadline to cut its count of deployed long-range nuclear delivery systems and warheads below levels prescribed in the keystone New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
The 10-year bilateral treaty, known as New START, went into force in 2011 and required the U.S. and Russia to cap deployed long-range warheads and delivery mechanisms at certain levels by Feb. 5, 2018. Treaty limits are: 700 deployed intercontinental- and submarine-launched ballistic missiles and heavy bombers; 1,550 fielded strategic warheads; and 800 deployed and nondeployed long-range launchers.
The U.S. dropped below those limits in August.
“The United States will shortly receive an official notification confirming these figures,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said Monday.
Below is Russia’s current count of deployed warheads and delivery mechanisms, as detailed in the ministry’s official communication.
| US (09/01/2017) | Russia (02/05/2018) | Target | US vs Target (09/01/2017) | Russia vs Target (02/05/2018) | |||
| Deployed ICBMs, Deployed SLBMs, and Deployed Heavy Bombers | 660 | 527 | 700 | -40 | -173 | ||
| Warheads on Deployed ICBMs, on Deployed SLBMs, and Nuclear Warheads Counted for Deployed Heavy Bombers | 1393 | 1,444 | 1,550 | -157 | -106 | ||
| Deployed and Non-deployed Launchers of ICBMs, Deployed and Non-deployed Launchers of SLBMs, and Deployed and Non-deployed Heavy Bombers | 800 | 779 | 800 | 0 | -21 | ||
New START is set to expire three years from now, but the U.S. and Russia have not yet started negotiating a follow-on to the treaty, which itself succeeded the START treaty that entered into force in 1994.
Last week, senior officials with the U.S. State Department, citing the Kremlin’s alleged violation of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty starting in 2014, said the time was not yet right to bring Russia to the table for negotiations on a new arms-reduction pact.
