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Barack Obama: “First, we take an important step forward to increase nuclear security and stop the spread of nuclear weapons. This…”

On the recordJuly 5, 2009
First, we take an important step forward to increase nuclear security and stop the spread of nuclear weapons. This starts with a reduction of our own nuclear arsenals. As the world's two leading nuclear powers the United States and Russia must lead by example and that's what we're doing here today.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Obama discusses the importance of reducing nuclear arsenals as part of a new arms ban treaty with Russia.

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