WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top officials pressed the U.S. Senate on Monday to ratify the New START nuclear treaty by year's end, saying failure to act would leave Washington with dangerously little information about the state of Russia's atomic weapons.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, writing in the Washington Post, ramped up pressure on the Senate to act, even as administration officials negotiated with a top Republican lawmaker to try to find a way to move the treaty forward.
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