US and Russia came much closer to a nuclear arms control. This is back on the center stage for the first time in the last one decade. This promises a binding arms-reduction treaty by year’s end and a Moscow summit in July.

It was a powerful symbolic start to what both sides have called a “reset” of relations that were “drifting, and drifting in some wrong directions,” Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said after the meeting with Barack Obama.
The presidents pledged to produce a binding arms-reduction treaty before December, which will mark the expiration of the Treaty on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms, or START, which regulates the number of nuclear weapons Washington and Moscow can possess. They said they are committed to “achieving a nuclear-free world,” language that White House officials said had never been used by the heads of the former Cold War rivals before.