i hope that the senate will give its advice and concept to the ratification of the treaty as soon as possible. i ve been involved as the president noted in arms control negotiations and the ratification of arms control negotiationses and treaties for the last 25 years. and what is fascinating about this whole process to me is that 25 years ago, the soviet union and the united states each had something like 28,000, 29,000 nuclear weapons. as a result of the arms control process and the end of the cold war and the change in the world situation, those numbers have been reduced by over 80%. so down now under 10,000. one of the ropfof the reasons w to do this with both sides confident in the process was because of the arms control agreement, whether the i ncnf treaty, s.t.a.r.t. 1, s.t.a.r.t. 2, so many treaties came along