Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
The Test of Leadership
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 bomb. The damage...
Questions for the candidates
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
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
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 21st century...
‘Toward a Nuclear-Free World’: Reaganites against the bomb
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
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
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 into the air...
Spiritual Disaster Preparedness
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
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
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 deploy...