New
York Times: On 8 April 2010 in the Czech capital of Prague,
Presidents Barack Obama of the US and Dmitry Medvedev of Russia
signed
New START,
a bilateral arms treaty that would reduce the number of nuclear
weapons in the two countries' arsenals by more than half. A
two-thirds majority vote by the US Senate is needed to ratify
New START (or any other international treaty), and before a
treaty is ratified, the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee
holds a meeting to consider it. That meeting, which would have
taken place today, has been postponed indefinitely after the
committee's chair, John Kerry (D-MA), agreed to Republican
requests for more time to examine the treaty.
