From USA TODAY:
President Obama hailed a new nuclear deal with Russia today as “the most comprehensive arms control agreement in nearly two decades,” and a major step toward his goal of a world free of nuclear weapons…
The new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty cuts by about a third the number of nuclear weapons to be deployed by the United States and Russia, Obama said. It also makes cuts in the number of missiles and launchers, as well as “a strong and effective verification regime.”…
Hopes for a nuclear-free world “will not be reached in the near future,” Obama said, but he has an agenda to “stop the spread of these weapons, to secure vulnerable nuclear materials from terrorists, and to reduce nuclear arsenals.”
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