The Washington Post:
President Trump’s pledge to pursue arms control talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin spotlights possible common ground between Washington and Moscow at a time of extreme discord and offers a remote chance that the two leaders could revive Cold War-era pacts that have broken down steadily in recent years.
The remarks offered what appeared to be a rare and possibly ephemeral opening in a relationship that has all but shut down, owning to Russia’s intervention in Syria and Ukraine and its subsequent interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign.
For the past month and a half, the United States and Russia have been touting nuclear weapons plans in what to many has seemed like a throwback to a bygone era, when the nations were in a race to develop the deadliest weapons in the world with few signs of any limits…
