 . Military Space News .  Moscow gives Obama's nuclear cuts
proposal cool reception by Staff Writers Moscow (AFP) June 19,
2013  Russia wants other states to commit to nuclear cuts:
Kremlin Moscow (AFP) June 19, 2013 - Russia wants major new cuts
in nuclear stockpiles to be proposed by US President Barack
Obama on Wednesday to be expanded beyond Russia and the United
States and include other nuclear armed states, a top Kremlin
aide said.  "The process of cutting down nuclear potential
should include other countries with nuclear weapons," Russian
diplomats told Washington ahead of Obama's expected speech on
the subject in Berlin, foreign policy aide Yury Ushakov said.
"The situation now is not like in the 1960s and 1970s when only
the United States and the Soviet Union held talks on reducing
nuclear arms," Ushakov said at a briefing in Moscow.  Now we
need to look more broadly... and increase the circle of
participants in possible contacts on this matter."  US officials
said Obama will use his speech to propo