Obama Calls on Leaders to Ratify START treaty

U.S. President Barack Obama makes a statement during a meeting about the START treaty with present administration officials and former Secretaries of State and Defense official in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on November 18, 2010. The President called for the ratification of the U.S.-Russia nuclear arms treaty "a national security imperative". (L-R): Vice President Joseph Biden, President Obama, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Vice Chair Joint Chiefs of Staff General James Cartwright, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft, Senator John Kerry, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Senator Richard Lugar UPI/Dennis Brack/Pool