Mapping a National Security Failure: Ratification of the New START Treaty
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Endnotes
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[6] Ibid.
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[9] Ibid.
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[18] Ibid, p. 1.
[19] Ibid., p. 13
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[27] Ibid. p. 21
[28] Ibid. p. 67
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[81] Ibid.
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[87] Ibid.
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[93] Ibid
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[96] Ibid.
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[101] Ibid., p. 2.
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[123] Ibid.
[124] Ibid.
[125] Ibid.
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