Claim: Before New START, or the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, Russia had a total of 620 strategic forces and 77 bomber forces.
Evidence: New START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) (Russian abbrev.: СНВ-III, SNV-III from сокращение стратегических наступательных вооружений "reduction of strategic offensive arms') is a nuclear arms reduction treaty between the United States and the Russian Federation with the formal name of Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms. Strategic forces (total) 620 Bomber force (total) 77