President Barack Obama is looking for help from former Secretary of State Colin Powell to jump start the short-circuited nuclear treaty with the Russians. Powell, a retired four-star Army general and former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, said, “We’re not exactly sure what’s going on in the Russian Federation, and they’re not exactly sure what’s going on in the United States.” The START treaty would reduce how many strategic warheads the United States and Russia could hold and set up a system so each could inspect and verify the other’s arsenal.

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