PAVLOGRAD, Ukraine - Ten years ago, an ambitious new US senator traveled to this bleak outpost of the former Soviet Union to call for the urgent elimination of the stockpiles of Cold War-era landmines and other munitions that were made and stored here.
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In this 2005 file photo then-Senator Barack Obama is shown visiting a munitions disposal plant in Donetsk.
