US President George H.W. Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START II), the most far-reaching nuclear-arms reduction pact in history. The agreement commits the US and Russia to the elimination of all ICBMs carrying multiple, independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRVs) and the reduction of the number of nuclear weapons carried by bombers.
The Senate Armed Services subcommittee on strategic forces heard testimony from the Defense Department’s top missile defense leaders and demanded to know why the Missile Defense Agency's proposed $9.6 billion fiscal 2023 budget will not yield more reliable defense against hypersonic weapons already being fielded by adversaries, including Russia on…