We'll Dump Nukes If Everybody Does: Putin

Russian PM Vladimir Putin says his country is willing to abandon nuclear weapons if the US and all other nuclear-armed countries do the same. Putin was speaking at a meeting with Germany's foreign minister, who said earlier that the idea of scrapping nuclear arms altogether was a real prospect. The US and Russia previously agreed to draft a new treaty to reduce their nuclear stockpiles.

"If those who made the atomic bomb and used it are ready to abandon it—like, I hope, other nuclear powers officially and unofficially owning them—of course we will welcome and facilitate this process in all ways," Putin said today. "The goal of global zero is not a game for utopians, but will be taken up by the doyens of US foreign policy as well as by German and Polish politicians," Germany's foreign minister added. (More President Obama stories.)