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...march 26, President Obama announced that the U.S. and Russia will cut their deployed long-range nuclear arsenals by 30% over seven years. The START Follow-On Treaty, as it is known, is the descendant of a series of Cold War arms-control agreements that had an unlikely progenitor: the spectacular failure of the most ambitious disarmament program ever conceived. The Versailles Treaty of 1919, which was designed to disarm Germany but which failed to prevent World War II, led to a more sober approach to arms control predicated on the belief that conflict is inevitable and a balance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brief History: Arms-Control Agreements | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

...many Polish undergraduates like Kozak, the deaths of Polish President Lech Kaczynski and top political and military leaders in a plane crash in western Russia over the weekend came as a shock...

Author: By Sirui Li, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Mourn Polish Dead | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

...deaths are even more shocking in light of the historical context, Nieszporowski added. In 1940, Stalin ordered a massacre of more than 20,000 Polish officials and intellectuals in Russia. Seventy years later, President Kacynski and 96 others—including many top Polish officials—died in the same location while en route to commemorate the massacre’s 70th anniversary...

Author: By Sirui Li, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Mourn Polish Dead | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

According to Kozak, it is “amazing” that Russian leaders have shown a “fast” and “caring” response, which has challenged pessimism about the fragile relationship between Poland and Russia, he added...

Author: By Sirui Li, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Mourn Polish Dead | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

...than in fact. Many countries participating in the summit have concluded that tightening security measures around their nuclear material is not worth the cost and effort. "There's disagreement over how much physical security is needed," says David Albright of the Institute for Science and International Security, adding that Russia, India and some European countries have been skeptical of the extent of the danger posed by nuclear terrorism.(See "U.S.-Russia Nuke Treaty: Small Step on a Long Road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Obama Make Progress on Global Nuclear Security? | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

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