Russia and US have thousands of nuclear weapons with them aimed at each other. Over the last one decade, both the countries have been able to successfully work in reducing the arms pile by around 10%. But still a huge task is left behind.

The new Obama administration has now got into the task of starting fresh negotiations with the Russian government on the nuclear arms reduction issue. Special teams have been formed to carry out the micro level negotiations, and it is indeed going to be a tough task for US to convince Russia to reduce the nuclear stock pile, in the current fragile global environment.