{"id":521004,"date":"2010-04-08T12:00:23","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T16:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opiniojuris.org\/2010\/04\/08\/a-new-start-treaty-and-protocol\/"},"modified":"2010-04-08T12:00:23","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T16:00:23","slug":"a-new-start-treaty-and-protocol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/521004","title":{"rendered":"A New START Treaty and Protocol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>by Duncan Hollis <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Putting aside events in Kyrgyzstan (which certainly bear close watching), the day&#8217;s big news for international lawyers was President Obama and Russian President Dmitri A. Medvedev signing two related international agreements on the reduction of nuclear armaments. The State Department has posted the originals of this new START treaty <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/documents\/organization\/140035.pdf\">here <\/a>(see <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/documents\/organization\/140047.pdf\">here <\/a>for the longer, more detailed Protocol to that treaty).\u00a0 I&#8217;ll leave\u00a0for later any substantive commentary on these agreements or their\u00a0national security\/foreign relations implications.\u00a0\u00a0For now, let me give a\u00a0quick kudos to whoever at\u00a0the State Department managed to get these documents posted so quickly.\u00a0 For years <em>the <\/em>major problem in U.S. treaty practice was getting access to copies of U.S. treaties.\u00a0 The fact this treaty was signed and made publicly available only a few hours later suggests such information access problems are (hopefully) behind us.\u00a0 Now, if they could only modernize the font &#8212; really, Courier typeface is <em>such <\/em>a relic of the Cold War.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Duncan Hollis Putting aside events in Kyrgyzstan (which certainly bear close watching), the day&#8217;s big news for international lawyers was President Obama and Russian President Dmitri A. Medvedev signing two related international agreements on the reduction of nuclear armaments. The State Department has posted the originals of this new START treaty here (see here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4226,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}