DISARMING DISCUSSION: TIME's roundtable, which included former Soviet leader Gorbachev (third from left), agreed that greater cooperation between Washington and Moscow on nuclear weapons is vital
President Obama's call for a "world without nuclear weapons," and his agreement with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev to work towards just that, have helped revive an issue that slipped off the foreign-policy agenda following the end of the Cold War two decades ago. But nuclear disarmament hasn't been completely forgotten in recent years. In 2007, four diplomatic heavyweights former U.S. Secretaries of State George Shultz and Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of Defense William Perry and former Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee Sam Nunn made an impassioned plea for a nuclear weapons-free world. Shultz, Perry and Nunn, along...
