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...
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...
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,...
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....
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...
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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...
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...
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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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...
Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds
December 19, 2007 Embassy magazine By Jonathan Granoff Those of us who vigorously advocate for a nuclear weapon-free world are often thought to ignore positive efforts by nuclear weapon states. Let us put that to rest. Here is a short list of several noteworthy...
Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds
By Jonathan Granoff Special to The Courier-Journal Click here for the original publication Religious leaders gathering this week at the Festival of Faiths in Louisville must make a forceful call to forge a consensus of conscience and reason: Nuclear weapons are...
