side. The impact of START on confidence-building and military transparency between the United States and the Soviet Union could be profound. These confidence-building and transparency effects of START, I believe, will foster better relations between our countries. Today, some 13 different types of inspections are incorporated into the START treaty. In some cases, President Bush's trial verification measures and similar Soviet proposals have cleared away several hurdles, especially those that would prevent agreement because of a misunderstanding on operations and CD/PV.553 6 (Mr., Burt, United States) procedures for inspections. Last September, Secretary Baker and Minister Shevardnadze signed the first of these measures, an agreement on notification of major strategic exercises involving heavy bombers. In addition, we have reached agreement on other such measures. The Verification and Stability Measure for early Re-entry Vehicle Inspections and Exhibitions of Heavy Bombers are two of these steps. Under our Re-entry Vehicle Inspection proposal, for example, it was envisaged than each side would demonstrate its own proposed inspection procedures for verifying that specific types of ICBMs and SLBMs have no more warheads that the number of warheads attributed to them. In fact, the first such trial inspection will take place next week, when American and Soviet officials travel to F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming in the United States to validate procedures for counting warheads on the MX missile. Finally, we have conducted reciprocal demonstrations of techniques for applying unique identifiers on ballistic missiles, a process referred to as tagging missiles. Experts from both of our countries met here to take part in this exercise. In essence, the "tag" on a missile will act as its fingerprint, thereby ensuring that each missile possessed by both sides can be uniquely identified. As you can see, the United States and the Soviet Union have now 
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