Speaking at the Brandenburg Gate during a visit to the German capital, Berlin, he said he was confident the US could maintain its security while reducing its nuclear capacity by a third. US President Barack Obama has called for greater efforts to be made to reduce US and Russian nuclear arsenals.
He also called for reductions in the number of tactical warheads in Europe. The US and Russian signed a joint agreement in 2010 to mutually reduce their stockpiles of nuclear weapons to a maximum of 1,550 warheads and no more than 700 deployed launchers.
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