Despite tensions in the summit lead-up, the two leaders were overly cordial in their remarks after the meeting. Rose Gottemoeller, lead US negotiator for the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), joined The World’s host Marco Werman to offer insight.
A final vote on the New START Agreement is expected this week, after 67 Senators ? exactly the two-thirds majority necessary to ratify the treaty ? voted yesterday to break a GOP filibuster of the bill. The treaty would significantly decrease the number of nuclear weapons held by the United States and Russia. We’re looking […]