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Data mining and analyzing information through new information technologies and social networks may help to control arms within the Russian-U.S. START Treaty, Acting Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, Rose Gottemoeller said on Friday.

Data mining and analyzing information through new information technologies and social networks may help to control arms within the Russian-U.S. START Treaty, Acting Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, Rose Gottemoeller said on Friday.

Gottemoeller, who is known as the American “face” of START, met on Friday with students at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations to deliver a speech on arms control in the information age.

“Open source information technologies improve arms control verification in at least two ways: either as a way of generating new information or as analysis of information that already is out there,” Gottemoeller said.

Using “open source geospatial databases like Google Earth” could help to “pick up types and varieties of helicopters, tanks and multiple rocket launch systems, among many other items of concern,” the U.S. Official went on.

Signed in April, 2011 by the presidents of Russia and the United States, the New START Treaty cuts the nuclear arsenals of both nations to 1,550 nuclear warheads, down from the current 2,200.

In an interview with the Russian Kommersant business daily, published on Wednesday, Gottemoeller said that Moscow and Washington have already exchanged over 2,000 notifications about their strategic arms.

The U.S.official also said that the treaty “was going very well.”

Moscow and Washington each have already conducted 18 inspections since the treaty was signed last April, Gottemoeller told Kommersant.

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