Later this month, Presidents Obama and Putin will both attend a G8 summit in Northern Ireland. The two men will be meeting at what is likely to be an ugly moment in U.S.-Russia relations. The day after the summit begins, the Nunn-Lugar deal—a partnership between the two countries dating to 1992 that helps to safeguard Soviet-era nuclear and chemical weapons—is set to expire. The agreement, named after the two former senators who proposed it at the end of the Cold War, Sam Nunn and Dick Lugar, was widely viewed as one of the most important arms-control deals in recent memory. But last fall, Putin’s government announced it would not extend the deal.
Then there is vast divide between Obama and Putin on Syria.
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