While the threat of global nuclear war largely has passed, the danger of nuclear proliferation continues to make the 40-year-old Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty as relevant today as it was during the height of the Cold War, President Obama says.
In the vaults of the National Museum of American History in Washington is a collection of some 14,000 Russian coins and medals dating back nearly 1,000 years. It is rivaled only by the coin collection in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia.
"We support Greece and the tough economic measures it is taking," Secretary Clinton says after a meeting with Greek Prime Minister Papandreou.
The United States stands with the people of Northern Ireland in their efforts to build and sustain a thriving, confident, and shared society, the secretary of state says.
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