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Fri 02 Feb 2010US and Russia urged to begin reducing nuclear arsenals
A GROUP of former heads of state and arms control experts has called on the US and Russia to begin reducing their nuclear arsenals to 1,000 warheads each to pave the way for worldwide nuclear disarmament.
At its summit in Paris yesterday, the Global Zero campaign said such an accord by the US and Russia – which between them possess 95 per cent of the world’s nuclear weapons – could be the first step on the route to agreement by all nuclear powers to abolish atomic weapons by 2030.
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