By James Blitz and Stefan Wagstyl
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The drive to reduce nuclear stockpiles is, however, the pre-eminent theme of this summit, the subject where the US and Russian leaderships have a chance to demonstrate a spirit of common purpose. Arms control is one of the few issues in global politics where they know they dominate the agenda. The two hold 95 per cent of the world’s nuclear arsenals between them and – in the 1970s and early 1990s – they went a long way to reducing their stockpiles...
July 7, 2009 - By Deborah Bain