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Arms Control: President Obama Heads to Russia
President Obama heads to Russia next week hoping to agree on a deal with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to reduce the stocks of deployed nuclear warheads to below 1,700 on each side. For more, The Takeaway turns to the BBC’s Jonathan Marcus.
President Obama will head to Russia next week with arms control on the agenda. President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev may agree on the outline of a deal to reduce the stocks of deployed nuclear warheads to below 1,700 on each side. For more we turn to Jonathan Marcus, the diplomatic correspondent for the BBC.