The United States and Russia, striving to ease strained relations, announced jointly Wednesday that they'll try to put a new nuclear arms reduction deal in place before the existing treaty expires in December.

In advance of their first sit down, President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev issued a joint statement saying the "era when our countries viewed each other as enemies is long over." They pledged to work together to limit the world's two largest nuclear arsenals, and the White House also announced that Obama was accepting Medvedev's invitation to visit Moscow this summer.

An interesting bit of news about which we can all rejoice. The US & Russia, the two world superpowers, are finally striving to reduce their nuclear weapons arsenal.

No mention of China, which is worrisome. Maybe the US & Russia have a buyer for their nuclear weapons to even the playing field out among the now-three world superpowers? This would at least give China a fair shot in a Mutually Assured Destruction scenario.

Now that I think of it - nice try, Boston.com, but this is definitely cut and pasted from an article 22 years ago or so. It must be; the Cold War ended on 12/25/89, didn't it?