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Apr 18 2009, AP

Back in the Cold War, an eon ago, in a little white house in Iceland, the Russian and the American parried and probed each other as antagonists. And together they almost rid the world of doomsday arms.

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In this Feb. 3, 2009 photo provided by the U.S. Geological Survey department, the air temperature sensor at the Big Black River shelter near the Canadian Border, close to St. Pamphile, Quebec, is seen. About 3 weeks earlier, on Jan. 16, the U.S....