The Obama administration would consider embracing a new set of procedures for verifying an accord to replace the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, according to a senior State Department official. Questions linger over how the U.S. diplomatic team might handle Russian complaints regarding on-site inspections and test-data exchanges. It has become apparent that "both countries would like to have a smaller number of inspections, [which can be] time consuming [and] expensive," said Daryl Kimball [2]of the Ploughshares-funded Arms Control Association [3].
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[1] https://ploughshares.org/file/616
[2] http://ploughshares.org/expert/37
[3] http://www.armscontrol.org/
[4] http://www.globalsecuritynewswire.org/gsn/nw_20090417_1850.php