US and Russia agree nuclear cuts

[Aramike]

Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

Does it really matter? This is more symbolic than anything else. The numbers they are talking about are about the numbers of actual deployed weapons anyway, so not much changes.

This is just a feel good thing for the rest of us.

-S

Exactly right. These types of things (remember the START treaties?) are generally designed for both nation's leaders to get a little good PR for eliminating some obsolete inventory that they would likely eliminate regardless.