See what COOPERATION can do: United States and Russia!

This is an inspirational news story chronicling the movement towards world unity presaged in the Bahá'í writings:

Active collaboration between the United States and Russia for 15 years
dismantling Russia's nuclear arsenal.

Virtue of note: Responsibility

A 2005 file photo showing President Bush (L) and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Pusan, South Korea November 18, 2005.

Below find excerpts from the article. In this connection we may well ponder Bahá'u'lláhs potent advice:

Be united in counsel, be one in thought. Let each morn be better than its eve, and each morrow richer than its yesterday...

as well as 'Abdu'l-Bahá's sober maxim:

Thoughts of war bring destruction to all harmony, well-being, restfulness and content. Thoughts of love are constructive of brotherhood, peace, friendship, and happiness.

U.S. and Russia celebrate 15 years of dismantling Russia's nuclear arsenal

(Published August 31, 2007 in The International Herald Tribune)

In a time of fresh diplomatic disputes between the Kremlin and the White House, the nonproliferation work is a remaining area where Russia and the United States still agree.

The brainchild of [U.S.] Senator Richard Lugar and Sam Nunn, then also a senator, the effort, which had its 15th anniversary this week, has grown into one of the principal areas of enduring collaboration between Russia and the United States.

Programs under its umbrella have helped Russia and other former Soviet states account for, secure and destroy nuclear, chemical and biological materials and the equipment related to their delivery as weapons...
...in all, nearly 7,000 nuclear warheads have been deactivated, and silos, mobile launchers, submarines and strategic bombers that were once integral to their deployment and potential use have been destroyed.

In a time of fresh diplomatic disputes between the Kremlin and the White House, the nonproliferation work is a remaining area where Russia and the United States still agree.

"This is one of the bright spots in the relationship," said William Tobey, a deputy administrator at the [U.S.] National Nuclear Security Administration...

Sergei Shevchenko, a senior official at the missile technologies directorate of Russia's space agency... said that the collaboration was an example of what the two countries could achieve together, and suggested the model could be extended, for example, to research and programs combating infectious disease.


The full article can be read here.


Here is Shoghi Effendi's confident prediction regarding conditions in a future world community:

"The enormous energy dissipated and wasted on war, whether economic or political, will be consecrated to such ends as will extend the range of human inventions and technical development, to the increase of the productivity of mankind, to the extermination of disease, to the extension of scientific research, to the raising of the standard of physical health, to the sharpening and refinement of the human brain, to the exploitation of the unused and unsuspected resources of the planet, to the prolongation of human life, and to the furtherance of any other agency that can stimulate the intellectual, the moral, and spiritual life of the entire human race."