Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
Humanity’s Greatest Challenge and Its Solution
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 11.5...
A Clarifying Call
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...
Mr. Obama and Nuclear Weapons
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 for the elimination...
Zero Nuclear Weapons
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
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
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
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. The day,...
Back to the drawing board
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
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
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....