Talking: President Barack Obama (r.) met with his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev at Winfield House in London, Wednesday. (RIA Novosti, Vladimir Rodionov, Presidential Press Service/AP) From The Christian Science Monitor:
Moscow – During the darkest days of the cold war, nothing uplifted people’s moods and raised hopes for world peace like an official announcement that the two superpowers were opening negotiations to slash their arsenals of terrifying, death-dealing intercontinental nuclear weapons.
Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitri Medvedev brought back some of that happy buzz Wednesday as they emerged, smiling, from their first meeting to inform journalists that talks for a fresh strategic arms accord are on the table, and breakthroughs on other, thornier issues might also be in the pipeline.
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