Hagel, Global Zero Urge Obama to Back Nuclear Ban

President Obama and Russian President Medvedev, who will meet for the first time next week, should agree on dramatic reductions of U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals.  Representing the Global Zero campaign, Ploughshares Fund board member and former Senator Chuck Hagel  says that ''the two leaders can move beyond traditional arms control and, in a bold move, set the world on a course toward the total elimination of all nuclear weapons -- global zero.'' Obama and Medvedev have expressed support for reducing nuclear weapons through the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, which expires at the end of the year.