Which U.S. president renamed the negotiations START?

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Strategic Arms Reduction Talks U.S. Pres. Barack Obama talking with Russian Pres. Dmitry Medvedev, just before the two leaders issued a joint statement about their continued cooperation on the New START Treaty, December 4, 2009.

U.S. President Ronald Reagan renamed the negotiations Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) in 1982 when he resumed strategic-arms negotiations with the Soviet Union.1

In doing so, he shifted the focus of the discussions from merely limiting the growth of nuclear arsenals—as had been the case with the previous Strategic Arms Limitation Talks—to proposing radical reductions in existing stocks of missiles and warheads.12