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 [2]campaign, Ploughshares Fund board member and former Senator Chuck Hagel [3]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 [4], which expires at the end of the year.
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[1] https://ploughshares.org/file/442
[2] http://www.globalzero.org/
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Hagel
[4] http://www.fas.org/nuke/control/start1/index.html
[5] http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/03/26/washington/AP-US-Russia-Nuclear.html?_r=1