Bilateral agreement between the US and USSR, which if ratified, would set a ceiling of 1,600 strategic nuclear delivery vehicles and 6,000 “accountable” warheads for each country. START cuts U.S. long-range nuclear warheads by 15%, Soviet by 25%. But both sides are permitted to continue modernization plans, and the number of nuclear warheads carried on some categories of strategic weapons is projected to actually increase by the late 1990s under the treaty.
