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Senate ratifies nuclear arms deal

The US Senate has ratified the New START treaty, a nuclear arms agreement between Russia and the US that has been a key foreign policy objective for US President Barack Obama. The decision paves the way for a new round of bilateral nuclear inspections, which ended in 2009 when the 1991 START I treaty expired. Obama signed the treaty with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in April in Prague (right). It replaces the 2002 Moscow Treaty, which was set to expire in 2012, and which made no arrangement for mutual verification of the arms limits it set. Under New START, which 

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