U.S., Russia are completing negotiations on arms control treaty: Obama

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama said Wednesday in his first State of the Union address that the United States and Russia are completing negotiations on a successor treaty for the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).

"The United States and Russia are completing negotiations on the farthest-reaching arms control treaty in nearly two decades," he said, noting that the United States is reducing nuclear warhead stockpiles and launchers while ensuring adequate deterrent

He said forty-four nations will come together in April’s Nuclear Security Summit, conveying a clear goal: securing all vulnerable nuclear materials around the world in four years, so that they never fall into the hands of terrorists.