0 joining me now is joe, president of the plough share, global security foundation and a man trying to keep us out of a very dark timeline. joe, it s good to see you. my pleasure, ezra. thank you. what broke down in these talks? tell me where we were a few years ago that had people optimistic and what happened now that has people pessimistic. president obama made a dramatic speech in prague in 2009 calling for a world with the safety and security of its people can be envisioned without nuclear weapons at all and russia responded. president obama and then-president medvedev quickly agreed on a first step, a modest treaty with verification measures that would draw down some of the nuclear arsenal. domestic politics intruded in the u.s. it took a while to get the treaty ratified. they finally did. that was late 2010. that was 2010. that s right. then domestic politics blocked any further progress on this. but now president obama s re-elected. he announces in june in berlin than
Marijuana. all that is ahead. but tonight we begin with the u.s. and russia relations in a downward and dangerous spiral. today white house spokesperson jay carney spent most of his daily briefing fielding questions about russia. the president announced a rare news conference for tomorrow. we expect he will answer a flood of questions about the increasingly chilly relations between the two countries. now, when you hear the u.s. and russia are bickering, when you hear their relationship is deteriorating or on the rocks, i want you to keep in mind, these two countries, our country and russia, still hold 94% of the world s nuclear weapons. 94%. you can see it on this graph. the chart comes from a plough share fund using estimates from hans christianson, the
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