Obama, Medvedev sign nuclear arms reduction policy

(NECN: Moscow) - President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev struck a preliminary deal today to reduce their nation's stockpiles of nuclear warheads to as few as 1,500 each. The document signed by the two leaders at a Moscow summit is meant as a guide for negotiators as the nations work toward a replacement pact for the START arms control agreement that expires in December. The joint understanding also commits the new treaty to lower longer-range missiles for delivering nuclear bombs to between 500 and 1,100. read more

NECN | July 6, 2009

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