Obama Needs Friends on Nuclear Weapons

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

  Embassy by MPI Chairman Emeritus Douglas Roche August 19, 2009   When President Barack Obama chairs a summit of the UN Security Council Sept. 24 on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, a new and exciting moment will have arrived in the long struggle...

Nuclear Proliferation: A Mother’s Legacy

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

Huffington Post by GSI Board Member Christie Brinkley May 13, 2009   Change is a constant. Sometimes the world changes imperceptibly, slowly, and sometimes it can come in a flash. The world is now poised for changes for the better. But let us never forget that...

Evangelicals join the nuclear-weapon-free world movement

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists by Rev. Tyler Wigg-Stevenson May 6, 2009 Though many might imagine faith and science as incompatible, religion and atomic science, at least, are natural bedfellows. Both lead their truest devotees into a troubled insomnia, staring...

Prophet Obama’s Fight for Peace

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

Embassy by Douglas Roche May 6, 2009 In the first 100 days of his presidency, Barack Obama has started to move the United States towards a culture of peace, a remarkable achievement in a world still torn by conflict. His actions on winding down the war in Iraq,...

An open, honest nuclear debate

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

The Edmonton Journal by Douglas Roche May 6, 2009 The consultation process launched by the Alberta government to determine if a nuclear power plant should be built in the Peace River area appears designed to dampen any opposition to the plan....

Humanity’s Greatest Challenge and Its Solution

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

Huffington Post by Kim Cranston May 4, 2009 Climate change is not humanity’s greatest challenge (even though scientists predict it may unleash public unrest, cross-border conflicts and mass migration in 20 years, and increase the global surface temperature up to...

A Clarifying Call

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

  Disarmament Times by Rhianna Tyson Spring 2009 With the ushering in of the Obama administration, the mood of the international security community has drastically changed. We have moved far from that low point in May 2005, when the Review Conference of the...

PNND Global Coordinator Alyn Ware Receives Peace Award

Jul 6, 2012 | Uncategorized

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1207/S00072/sginz-confers-peace-award-on-anti-nuclear-activist.htm Friday, 6 July 2012, 10:58 amPress Release: Soka Gakkai International New ZealandSGINZ Confers Peace Award on Anti-Nuclear Activist Soka Gakkai International of New...

Mr. Obama and Nuclear Weapons

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

Washington Post Letter to the Editor Thomas Graham, Jr. April 13, 2009 Anne Applebaum claimed that worldwide elimination of nuclear weapons was President Obama’s idea [“Yes, We Can . . . Disarm?” op-ed, April 7]. But President Ronald Reagan called...

Zero Nuclear Weapons

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

April 3, 2009 New York Times Michael Christ, IPPNW Executive-Director Letter to the Editor Re “Promises of a ‘Fresh Start’ for U.S.-Russia Relations” (news article, April 2): Twenty-three years ago, President Ronald Reagan and President Mikhail...

Japan’s Mistake at the NSG

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

Far Eastern Economic Review Kono Taro, PNND Council January 2009 Every year, Japan submits a resolution on nuclear disarmament to the United Nations General Assembly. This year was no different; the 15th such resolution was submitted in October. As the only country in...

UN Sets Ground for Future Disarmament Battles

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

Arms Control Today Jim Wurst December 2008 The UN General Assembly committee dealing with nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament issues ran a wait-and-see session in October 2008, with progress perhaps stymied by the upcoming presidential transition in the United...

North Korea and Six Party Talks: Resolving a Nuclear Crisis

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

by Kevin Davis Disarmament Times Fall 2008, Vol. 31, No.3 August 11 was the day many expected North Korea to be removed from the United States’ list of state sponsors of terrorism as a result of Pyongyang’s progress towards dismantling its nulear program....

Back to the drawing board

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

The Hindu Op-ed by Aaron Tovish August 29, 2008 Last September, I was accorded the privilege of contributing an article to The Hindu on the subject of the U.S.-India nuclear cooperation deal. The editor chose to introduce the piece by spotlighting the following two...

Triumph of Peace

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

August 27, 2008 South China Morning Post Op-ed by David Krieger The world has again witnessed 16 days of extraordinary beauty and talent by young athletes gathered from throughout the world. The athletes met in Beijing for the XXIXth Olympic Games of modern times and...

Nuclear Weapons: What Obama actually said on deterrence

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

 August 1, 2008 The Washington Times by John Hollum The Washington Times recently published an op-ed by Peter Huessy (“Playing games with U.S. security, Obama’s feel-good approach puts nuclear deterrent at risk”) which mischaracterized Sen....

The Test of Leadership

Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds

The Washington Times July 9, 2008 by James Goodby Much has been written about what the next president’s priorities should be. Iraq? Health care? The environment? The economy? Seldom mentioned is a danger many Americans have chosen to forget – the atom...

Questions for the candidates

Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds

International Herald Tribune July 4, 2008 by Mikhail Gorbachev There has been unusual interest throughout the world in the U.S. presidential race. Skeptics, of whom there are quite a few, say the campaign is just a marathon show that has little to do with real...

Nuclear Fuel Recyling: More Trouble Than Its Worth

Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds

April, 2008 Scientific American by Frank N. von Hippel Although a dozen years have elapsed since any new nuclear power reactor has come online in the U.S., there are now stirrings of a nuclear renaissance. The incentives are certainly in place: the costs of natural...

Sleepwalking in a Nuclear Minefield

Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds

April 2008 Sojourners The United States still worships at the altar of nuclear weapons – yet cries ‘heresy’ when others want to join the sect. by Douglas Roche Reprinted with permission. Contact Sojourners at www.sojo.net or +1 (800) 714-7474 As the...

‘Toward a Nuclear-Free World’: Reaganites against the bomb

Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds

April 2008 Sojourners by Tyler Wigg Stevenson and Jessica Wilbanks Reprinted with permission. +1 (800) 714-7474 In January 4, 2007, former Reagan administration officials George Shultz and Henry Kissinger joined Democrats William Perry and Sam Nunn in publishing...

Restoring U.S. nuclear-free leadership

Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds

April 2, 2008 Washington Timesby Thomas Graham, Jr. and Max Kampelman   After a long dry spell, the seeds planted by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in Geneva in 1985 and Reykjavik in 1986, appear to be bearing fruit. Their declaration in Geneva that “a...

Juggling and the Kashmir-Jammu Conflict

Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds

April 2008 By Alyn Ware SGI Quarterly I am visiting a school in rural New Zealand and am with a group of 15 students outside on the playing field. I have a bag of balls at my side. “Who here knows how to juggle a couple of balls?” I ask, tossing two balls...

Spiritual Disaster Preparedness

Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds

March 31, 2008 Will evangelicals show the will to pursue the prevention of a pending threat? by Tyler Wigg Stevenson Originally published by Christianity Today At 10:13 a.m. on Thursday, May 25, 2017, a 14-foot U-Haul truck will abruptly come to an inexplicable stop...

A Merciful White Flash

Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds

March 31, 2008   While despairing of nuclear annihilation, I received an irresistible consolation. By Tyler Wigg Stevenson This piece was originally published in Christianity Today, Before I became a Christian, I had the worst lunch breaks in the world. They went...

Forsaking Space Weapons Would Spur Peace

Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds

March 26, 2008 Op-ed by Rhianna Tyson Commondreams.org Tensions, it seems, between the US and Russia heighten daily. Increasingly hostile rhetoric is slung from both sides in a tactical volley best characterized as dumb and dumber. One side’s foolhardy plans to...