Table stakes

A little nuclear poker. President Obama opens

:President Obama is nothing if not ambitious -- which is why the new nuclear arms reduction treaty signed today is seen as a way station to his ultimate goal of a world without nuclear weapons.

Mahmoud Ahmadinijod raises:

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad drew applause at a nuclear disarmament conference in Tehran attended by representatives of 60 countries when he called for the destruction of all atomic weapons, starting with those in the U.S. arsenal.

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