President Barack Obama is in Germany where he will push for a reduction of the world's nuclear stockpiles.
His speech in Berlin will include a proposal for a one-third reduction in US and Russian arsenals, the White House has said.
The president will make his case during a speech at Berlin's iconic Brandenburg Gate.
His address comes 50 years after John F. Kennedy's famous Cold War speech in this once-divided city.
Mr Obama has previously called for reductions to the stockpiles and is not expected to outline a timeline for this renewed push.
But by addressing the issue in a major foreign policy speech, he is signalling a desire to rekindle an issue that was a centrepiece of his early first-term national security agenda.
Mr Obama's call for cooperation with Russia on the nuclear issue comes at a time of tension between Washington and Moscow, which are supporting opposite sides in Syria's civil war.
John F. Kennedy in 1963, when the Berlin Wall divided the city The US leader discussed non-proliferation with Russian President Vladimir Putin when they met this week on the sidelines of a G8 summit in Northern Ireland.
Mr Obama's Brandenburg Gate speech is going to be a momentous occasion.
On June 26, 1963, Mr Kennedy addressed a crowd of 450,000 in Berlin to repudiate communism and famously declare "Ich bin ein Berliner", German for "I am a Berliner".
Mr Obama also met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The president once again defended secret surveillance programmes that have been unveiled in leaks to the The Guardian and The Washington Post.
He said "lives had been saved" and about 50 terror plots thwarted, in comments that echoed similar remarks by the NSA chief, General Keith Alexander, to Congress.
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