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Mostly creative accounting rather than real cuts in warheads

Almost all of the advertised cuts will be accomplished by changing the way warheads are counted.

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Mostly creative accounting rather than real cuts in warheads
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B-52 assumed to carry only one bomb but it's equipped to carry 20
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Limit of 1,550 warheads is 74% lower than the 1991 START Treaty
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Majority of cuts already implemented prior to START follow-on Treaty
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Significance weakened by flexibility within aggregate limits
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US and Russia have seven years to complete the reductions
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